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EARLY MAN entitles them to rank as a distinct type. There is a freedom, a boldness, almost a roughness of chipping which suggests the methods of paleo- lithic work rather than that of neolithic implements. But they are types of a class of which examples have been found at several other SCALE OF FEET. 10 9B,7 6S43Z10 S Plan of Flint Mines at Cissburv Hill. localities. Such flints, for instance, have been found in some numbers on the Downs near Lewes, and by the writer at Riddlesdown, Surrey, at West Wickham, and at Broadstairs, Kent. No one who has closely studied these implements can doubt that they belong to an early part of the Neolithic Age. They have been compared by some writers with 315