bridge,[1] Milton,[2] and West Wickham,[3] Kent; Stoke Newington,[4] Middlesex; and Walton-on-the-Naze,[5] Essex.
I have found them in considerable numbers in and near ancient encampments. At Maiden Bower, near Dunstable, a party of three or four have on more than one occasion picked up upwards of forty specimens. I have examples from Hod Hill, Badbury Rings, and Poundbury Camp, Dorsetshire; from Little Solsbury Hill, Bath; Pulpit Wood, near Wendover, Bucks, and several localities in Suffolk, Cambs, and other counties. Some are very thick, though quite symmetrical in outline. On the Yorkshire Wolds, the Sussex Downs,[6] and in parts of Wilts and Suffolk, they are extremely numerous; but in any chalk country where flint is abundant, this form of implement can be found. In other districts, into which flint has to be imported, they are of course more scarce. They seem, however, to occur in greater or less abundance over the whole of England.
They are very numerous in Scotland, and extensive collections of them from Elgin, Wigtown, and other counties are to be seen in the National Museum at Edinburgh.
Specimens from a crannog in Ayrshire,[7] Urquhart, Elgin,[8] and Gullane Links,[9] Haddingtonshire, have been published.
They are found of nearly similar forms in Ireland, but are there rarer than in England, though fairly numerous in Antrim.[10]
In France the same form of instrument occurs, and I have a number of specimens from different parts of Belgium.
A spoon-shaped scraper from Neverstorff,[11] Schleswig Holstein, is figured. They are likewise found in South Russia.[12]
In Denmark scrapers of various forms are found, and are not uncommon in the kjökken-möddings and coast-finds. Sir John Lubbock[13] records having picked up as many as thirty-nine scrapers at a spot on the coast of Jutland, near Aarhuus.
In the Swiss Lake-dwellings they occasionally occur. I have a fine, almost kite-shaped, specimen from Auvernier, given me by Professor Desor, and others from Nussdorf. Some are engraved by Keller. They are also found in Italy. I have a small specimen from the Isle of Elba.
I possess specimens formed of obsidian, from Mexico; and instruments of jasper, of scraper-like forms, have been found at the Cape of Good Hope.[14] As already mentioned, they are well known in America. Some are found in Newfoundland.[15]
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. viii. p. 385.
- ↑ Arch. Cant., vol. xiii. p. 124. "Coll. Cant.," p. 4.
- ↑ Arch. Cant., vol. xiv. p. 88.
- ↑ Essex Nat., vol. ii. p. 67.
- ↑ Essex Nat., vol. iii. p. 159.
- ↑ A considerable number of them are in the Lewes Museum. Suss. Ant. Coll., vol. xxxviii. p. 226; xxxix. p. 97.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. xv. p. 109. Munro's "Lake-dw.," pp. 109, 174.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. ix. p. 461; vol. xix. p. 250.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xviii. p. 249.
- ↑ Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. vii. p. 202; ix. pp. 167, 320.
- ↑ Zeitsch. f. Ethn., vol. xvi. p. (356).
- ↑ Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. x. p. 352.
- ↑ "Preh. Times," 4th ed. p. 110.
- ↑ Trans. Preh. Cong., 1868, p. 69. Journ. Ethnol. Soc., vol. i. p. 52.
- ↑ Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. v. p. 239, pl. xi., 4.
