Fig. 200 is very minutely toothed on both edges, and has a line of brilliant polish on each margin of its flat face, showing the friction the saw had undergone in use, not improbably in sawing bone or horn.
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Fig. 201 is more coarsely serrated, and shows less of this characteristic polish, which is observable on a large proportion of these flint saws. The teeth are on many so minute that without careful examination they may be overlooked. Others, however, are coarsely toothed. Canon Greenwell has found saws in considerable numbers, and varying in the fineness of their serration, in the barrows on the Yorkshire Wolds, near Sherburn and elsewhere. In the soil of a single barrow at Rudstone there were no less than seventy-eight of these saws. Some have been found by Mr. E. Tindall in barrows near Bridlington,[1] as well as on the surface. Some well-formed flint saws have also been found near Whitby,[2] and some of small size at West Wickham,[3] Kent. In the Greenwell Collection is a finely-toothed saw, made from a curved flake, found at Kenny Hill, Mildenhall.
Five flint saws, finely serrated, were found in a barrow at Seaford,[4] and another on St. Leonard's Forest,[5] Horsham. One was also found in a barrow on Overton Hill,[6] Wilts. Seven saws, thirteen scrapers, and other worked flints were among the materials of another barrow at Rudstone.[7]
The teeth are usually but not universally worked in the side edges of the flakes. In Fig. 202 it is the chisel-like broad end of a flake that has been converted into a saw. This specimen was found by the late Mr. J. W. Flower, F.G.S., in a barrow at West Cranmore, Somerset, in company with numerous flint flakes and "scrapers." A bronze dagger was found in the same barrow.
Near Newhaven, Sussex, I found on the downs a flat flake, about 212 inches long, and slightly curved sideways towards the point. At this part the inner curve is neatly worked into a saw, and the outer curve carefully chipped into a rounded edge as a scraping tool.
A flint knife serrated at the back to serve as a saw was found by Mr. Bateman in Liff's Low, near Biggin.[8]
In Scotland several saws have been procured from the Culbin Sands,[9]- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxvii. p. 74.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxix. p. 284.
- ↑ Antiq., vol. xv., 1887, pp. 237-8.
- ↑ Suss. Arch. Coll., vol. xxxii. p. 175.
- ↑ Suss. Arch. Coll., vol. xxvii. p. 177.
- ↑ Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xx. p. 346.
- ↑ "Brit. Barr.," pp. 251, 262.
- ↑ "Vest. Ant. Derb.," p. 43.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xxv. p. 497.
