Washing linen, "batting staff" employed in, 256
"Wasters," presence of, in flint implement manufactories, 385, 649
Water, its action on flint, 497; carbonic-acid-charged, its action on chalk, 477, 557; fresh, drift beds deposited by, 662; transporting power of, 513; transporting power dependent on rate of flow, 667
Water-mills, stone pivots and sockets for, 242
Watson, Mr. Knight, on the word Celte in Vulgate, 56
Wauwyl, flint manufactory at, 22
Way, the late Mr. Albert, his finds at Bournemouth, 635, 637; on the submerged forest at Bournemouth, 695; referred to, 74, 160, 254, 340, 347; Miss, drift implement found by, 636
Weapons, association of, with decorations in graves, 460; bronze, in the heroic times, 4; elaboration of, a mark of dignity, 216, 226; hammer-heads as, 224; probable use of perforated axes as, 215; Scandinavian form of, found in Britain, 213; wearing and rechipping of, 349
Wear on implements, its evidence as to mode of use, 311
Weaving, early practice of, 436; possible use of perforated stones in, 237
Weaverthorpe, stag's horn pick found at, 34
Wedding dress cut out by stone knife, 348
Wedge, bone, 24; certain celts possibly used as, 82, 87, 655; of granite, 97; tightening of hafting by means of, 233
Wells in the chalk, varying height of water in, 664
Westlake, Mr. E., implement found by, 632
Wexovius as to reindeer marrow, 504
Weights for scales, stones as, 443
Whale, axe made from ulna of, 435; remains of near Cambridge, 681
Wheel-lock, use of pyrites in, 16
Whetstones, 261-271; of the Bronze Period, 268; in caves, 504; Danish, 264, 265; with gold cup in coffin, 449; in interments, 185, 268, 271, 332, 353; with iron loop for suspension, 270; with metal handles, 270, 271; Spanish perforated, 438
Whitaker, Mr. W., palæolithic implements found by, 538, 587, 607, 611, 612, 613
Whitbourn, the late Mr., implement found by, in Wey valley, 319, 594
White pebbles, symbolism of, 468
Whitening of flint, 497, 549, 556
Wild goose, remains of, in Fisherton beds, 631
Wilde, Sir William, on boring instruments for stone, 47; on classification of arrow-heads, 370; late use of stone implements recorded by, 11; on Irish treatment of sick cattle, 365; on use of celt in Irish weaving, 440; referred to, 154, 177, 215, 223, 232, 270, 272, 308
Willett, Mr. Ernest, his explorations at Cissbury, 78; his discovery at Brighton, 622
William of Poitiers quoted, 146
Williams, Rev. T. J., on white stones in interments, 468
Wilson, the late Sir Daniel, on American stone hammers, 235; on celt found in canoe, 150; on "elf-arrows," 366; on a find of "Picts' knives," 346; on stone boring, 47; on stone cups as lamps, 445
Wire, Mr. A. P., pointed implement found by, 603
"Witch-stone" as protection for cattle, 476
Withies, stone implements hafted by, 167, i68, 233, 239
"Witters" or barbs of arrow-heads, 370, note
"Women's knives," Eskimo, 343
Wood, bodkin of, in urn, 433; fire produced by friction of, 313; fossil, trom Tnanet sands, 620; method of preserving, 152; spindles of, with Roman (remains, 439; split, hafting of daggers in, 349; split, hafting of spear-heads in, 350; stone boring by means of, 48, 49, 50, 52; used for splintering obsidian, 24
Wood, Rev. J. G., his Nat. Hist, of Man referred to, 166, 167, 168, 299
Woods, various, used for hafting implements, 153, 155, 159. 160, 162, 163, 164
Wooden cup with handle in barrow, 448; figures, carved Egyptian, 369; objects associated with celts, 152
Woodward, Dr. Henry, crystal pick described by, 235; the late Dr. S. P., referred to, 627 Woodward, Dr., his suggestion as to arrow-heads, 407
Wookey Hyæna Den, 517—520
Wool, tissues of, in bronze interments, 437
Woollen cloth, skeleton wrapped in, 448
Worm, Olaf, on early stone implements, 363; his recognition of a Greenland harpoon, 410
Worsaae, Prof., suggestions as to early stone boring, 47, 48; referred to, 191, 232, 261, 271, 278, 298, 308, 353, 448
Wright, Mr. Arthur G., drift implement found by, 539
Wrist-guards of stone, 425-428
Wyatt, the late Mr. James, finds of implements, 572, 613; his section of Ouse valley, 531; referred to, 101, 110, 245, 340
Wye Valley, geological changes in, 521
Wyeth, Mr., on arrow-chipping by Snake River Indians, 40
X
Xanthorrhæa gum, its use in hafting hatchets, 137, 170
Xerxes, stone and iron-tipped arrows used by army of, 368
Y
Yew, flake-handle of, 292; in Hoxne beds, 575; probable use of for British bows, 411
Young, Mr. Lambton, C. E., drift implement from the Thames found by, 588
Yun-nan, jade-working in, 110
Z
Zinck, M., his criticisms on distinctions between palæo- and neo-lithic forms, 649
Zigzag incised lines on sandstone cup, 444; ornamentation on stone bracer, 430
Zuñis of New Mexico, arrow-head charms among the, 367
