Curved edge to implements, 576, 624; knives, 355-358; recess in palæolithic flake, 555
Gushing, Mr., arrow-head made by, 39
Custom House rates, "slick-stones" in table of, 441
Cutting powers of flint, 289
Cutting tools of slaty stone, 344; for holding in hand, 247; modern use or, 348
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Dacotahs, pump-drill used by, 48
D'Acy, M. E., on implements of the French caves, 511
Daggers, bronze, in interments, 185, 193, 194, 208, 211, 212, 214, 268, 269, 331, 398, 448; with gold on handle, 227; fluted, 331
Dagger-knives, bronze, in interments, 265, 309, 313; flint, 208, 313; highly worked Danish, 413, 414
Damour, M. A., on materials of celts, 66
Dana on the malleability of meteoric iron, 5
Danish flint daggers, ornamentation of, 42; perforated celts, 114; celts of great size, 118; tumuli, iron found in, 144; handled scrapers, 308; graves, needles in, 433
Darbishire, Mr. R. D., finds of celts, 84, 152, 236
Darwin, Mr. W. E., 624
Daubrée and Roulin, M.M., on Mexican razors, 290
David, possible nature of his sling, 417
Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, on flints upon Roman sites, 283; on the fauna of British caves, 485; on human skull in Cheddar cave, 486; on condition of bones from cave-earth, 508; on Brixham cave, 512; on Welsh caves, 521; on Crayford beds, 607; ovate implement found by, 611; on possible glaciation of N. Britain in Mammoth period, 697; on the extinction of some Post-Glacial animals, 704
Dawson, Mr. W. C, on a supposed hafted celt, 153
Débâcle, results of, on the Rhine, 672
De Bonstetten, 287, 470
Decorations, personal, 452-472
Deer, representations of on stag's horn adze, 434, 435
Deer's horn, see Stag's horn
Deluge, stone implements taken as evidence of, 526
Dendritic-markings on implements, 558; as testimony to authenticity of implements, 659; to what cause due, 660
Denmark, approximate dates of Periods in, 2, 23; bracers in, 430; cores of boat-shaped form from, 27; square-sided hatchets from, 32; grinding stones, 43; mode of testing thunderbolts in, 57; general use of flint for celts in, 85; comparative rarity of arrow-heads in, 404
Denudation, opening of caves by, 478; of the Fen country, 680, 681; of Hampshire gravels, 688
Deposits, implementiferous, due to river action, 696; marine, in Fen gravels, 681, 686; ossiferous, in caves, 478; in valleys, varying with the elevation, 699, 701
Depressions for holding, worked in cutting tool, 344
Desor, Professor, on method of boring stone, 51; referred to, 159, 161, 310
Detritus, amount of, brought down by rivers, 667, 705
Deventer, modern use of stone axe at, 157
Devonian limestone, caverns in, 491, 512
Dickinson, the late Mrs., on collective burial of celts, 75; her collection referred to, 93, 465
Diodorus Siculus on the use of stone in embalming, 8; on the implements of the Ichthyophagi, 288
Diorite, axe-hammer of, 205; axe-head of, 213; bastard-gouge of, 182; polished celt of, 107; ring of, 465
Discs, imperforate, 440
perforate, of dolerite, 230; as fly-wheels of drilling-sticks, 231; of jet, 455; ovoid, in Kent's Cavern, 493; possible uses of, 244, 439; quoit-like, 440; sharp-rimmed, 216
Discoidal implements possibly used as missiles, 648
Discoloration of flints, evidence afforded by, 659, 660, 661
Dish with lid, 451
Dishes, stone, 440; with handles, 451
Distaff and spindle, recent use of, 436, 437
Divining, grooved stone used in, 470
Dog, bones of in cist, 426; first appearance of, in Neolithic times, 486
Dolmens of Brittany, arrow-heads in, 385, 400; axe-hammer in, 212; carved illustration of celt in, 153; jadeite celts in, 109; chisel-ended implement from, 305; long whetstone from, 268; pyrites and flint in, 318
Dolomieu, on French gun-flint making, 18; his estimate of work of Caillouteur, 21
Dolomitic conglomerate, cave in, 517
Domestic use, instruments for, 436, 599
Donderbeitels and Donnerstein, 58, 63
Dordogne caves, objects from, 262, 292, 296, 312, 329; nature of, 476; deposits in, 478, 480
Doughty, Mr. Charles M., his finds at Hoxne. 376
Douglas, Mr., suggestion as to celt in interment, 145
Downes, Mr. W., chert implement found by, 639
Drainage area of ancient Solent River, 691, 692
Drift-stages of the Darent Valley, 690
Drill, antiquity of use of, 48; hollow, probable use of in America, 50
Drilling by flint flakes, 321; by quartz crystals, 322
"Drinking cups." See Cups.
"Druidical circle," 149; objects found in, 197
Druten-stein, as charm against witches, 469
Dubois, Dr., his Pithecanthropus, 703
Dugdale, Sir William, on stone celts, 3
"Dug-out" canoes' hollowed by stag's horn chisels, 434
Dunn, Mr. E. J., African drift-implement found by, 653
Dupont, Dr E., on a worn nodule of pyrites, 318; his investigation of Belgian caves, 481; his classification of cave deposits, 482
D'Urban, the late Mr. W. S. M., on the ballast pit at Broom, 639
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Ear-rings, bronze, in interment, 207
Earthenware, cup of, in interment, 149; spindle whorls of, 439
East Anglia, relations of palæolithic deposits in, 577
Eben, double meaning of, 443
Echini, fossil, in interments, 468, 469
Edkins, Mr. Joseph, on stone hatchets in China, 114