Lyme Regis, manufactory of flint implements at, 35
Lyon, Mr. Caleb, on Shasta arrow-head making, 40
Lysons, Mr. Samuel, excavations at Witcombe, 144
Lyttelton, Bishop, on stone hatchets, 3, 202, 204
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Mace-head, lenticular, of breccia, 232
Maces, flints naturally perforated used for, 184
Maces, see Hammers
MacEnery, the Rev. J,, his researches in Kent's Cavern, 488, 495
Machairodus, the, 508, 524
Maghara, copper mines of, 6; stone hammers at, 230; flint arrow-head from, 405
Mahanuddy, small nuclei from banks of, 23
Mahudel, on the early use of stone, 3
Maize, Kaffir mill for grinding, 250; stone pestles for crushing, 257
Mallet, Indian mode of halting, 239
Malleus fulmineus, 63
Mammoth, caves of the Age of the, 481
Man, antiquity of in Britain, 703; his co-existence with extinct animals, 474, 508, 513, 524, 700, &c.; early occupation of caves, 475, 480, &c.; mammalian fauna altered by, 482
Mandingoes, single-barbed arrows of the, 394
Manethonian dynasty, the third, use of grooved hammers in, 235
Manganese, dendritic markings due to presence of, 660
Mangles, Mr. H. A., drift implements found in Wey valley by, 595
Manning, Mr. Percy, implements found by, near Oxford, 594
Mantell, the late Dr., 84, 148, 308
Manufactories of flint implements, 34, 268, 280, 359, 401, 402; at Cissbury, 79; at Crayford, 606; in Guernsey, 401; at the Lake of Varese, 402; at Lyme Regis, 35; at Massingham Heath, 83; at Moosseedorf, 22; "wasters" found at, 80, 649
Maoris, bows unknown among the, 360; their jade chisels, 178; uses of the "Toki" among the, 172
Marathon, source of stone arrow-heads at, 368, 403
Marbodæus quoted as to the ceraunius, 64
Marcou, M., on N. American mauls, 235
Marine deposits in Fen gravels, 681
Marmot in Crayford beds, 607; in Fisherton beds, 631; presence of, indicative of climate, 699
Marrow of bones, a primitive delicacy, 504, 657
Marten, Mr. John, drift implement found by, 620
Martha's Hof, celt kept in a granary at, 58
Martin, Mr. C. Wykeham, scraper found by, 309
Mas d'Azil, painted pebbles in cave of, 484, 485
Mason, Mr. Otis T., "on aboriginal skin-dressing," 299
Massagetæ, their bronze arrow-heads, 368
Materials of which British celts are made, 65, 66, &c.; relative durability of, 655
Matter, solid, amount of in turbid water, 667
Mauls, stone, method of hafting, 169; in old copper workings, 233
Mealing-stones, absent in palæolithic times, 657; and muller, 251; from Swiss Lake-dwelling, 246, 250; on the site of Troy, 253
Medicinal powers, supposed, of stone implements, 271, 365, 437
Meillet, M., referred to, 327; on the causes of alteration in flint, 497
"Mell" for preparing barley, 451
Memnon, bronze sword of, 4
Mentone, intermediate age of deposits in caves near, 475, 487
Mercati, his suggestion as to the origin of celts, 62
Meres, New Zealand, difficulty of boring, 52; mode of using, 118; as denoting chieftainship, 226
Merewether, the late Dean, implements found by, 309
Meriones, bronze arrow of, 4
Merovingian interments, flint chips in, 283; flint implements in, 144, 145; iron arrow-heads in, 394; iron-mounted scrapers in, 314; stone objects in, 470
Mesolithic, use of term deprecated, 702
Metal-working, possible use of, small hammers for, 223; stone discs perhaps connected with, 257
Meteoric iron, probably the first used, 5
Mexican arrow-heads, 24, 39; English appearance of, 406; blade with original handle, 355; flakes of obsidian, 288; hafting of metal axes, 155, 156; obsidian cores, 23; obsidian razors, 290; obsidian swords, 294
Meyer, Dr. A. B., his catalogue of jade objects, 110
"Meyrick's Armour" referred to, 200
Mica schist, with garnets, celt of, 97; battle-axe of, 197; hammer of, 225
Micaceous grit, axe-head of, 19S; celt of, 97; perforated adze of, 189
Mid-Pleistocene character of Crayford beds, 607
Mildenhall, recent arrow-heads made by workman of, 42
Mill, bed-stone and rolling pin as, 250; rotatory, 254
"Mill-bill" of present day, 146
Mill-dues of St. Albans, 258
Mills and balls in barrows, 253
Milner, Col., his celt with Gnostic inscriptions, 60
Mine de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, mauls found in, 235
"Miners' hammers," Irish, 234
Mining, in chalk, 33, 79, 172; stone mauls used for, 233, 234
Mining instruments of bronze, 233
Miocene Age, evidence doubtful as to existence of man in the, 374
Mirrors, possible use of polished stone discs as, 440
Missiles, possible use of discoidal implements as, 655
Mississippi, estimated amount of detritus carried by, 667
Missouri, chert quarry in, 80
Mitchell, Sir A., on the spindle and whorl, 437
Mitten, Mr., on the fossil mosses from Hoxne, 577
Mongols, use of military flail among the, 423
Monkman, Mr. C, on sling-stones and intrenchments, 419
Montelius, Prof., referred to, 154, 261
Montezuma, arrow-making in palace of, 406; stone axe of, 157
Moraines of glaciers, boulder-clay mainly derived from, 697
Morison, Fynes, on Irish corn- grinding, 251
Morlot, M., his suggestions as to grinding flints, 43
"Morning star," a modification of the staff-sling, 423
Morse, Miss, her assistance with fossil plants from Hoxne, 577
Mortars, 245, 257, 450
Mortillet, M. A. de, on celt with haft-mark, 154; M. Gabriel de, on boring of Swiss axes, 51; on the chronological sequence of cave deposits, 475; classification of caves by, 483; on a cubical grindstone, 245; on
