Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[253] Nature, Jan. 13, 1898, pp. 257-8.

[254] Traces of polishing are said to have been found on French implements of late palaeolithic age (Ass. franç. pour l’avancement des sc., 13^e sess., 1884, 1^re part., p. 212; L’Anthr., iv, 1893, p. 550).

[255] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, pp. 73, 85-6, and Guide to the Ant. of the Stone Age (Brit. Museum), pp. 69-70. Much depended upon the nature of the material. Certain hard stones, for instance granite and diorite, were necessarily ground and polished. See L’Anthr., iv, 1893, p. 550, and Guide to the Ant. of the Stone Age (Brit. Museum), p. 69.

[256] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, p. 276.

[257] Ib., pp. 28-9, 31.

[258] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, pp. 14-37, 43. Cf. 15th Ann. Report American Bureau of Ethn., 1893-4 (1897), p. 25.

[259] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, pp. 37-43, 412, 414-6; Journ. Anthr. Inst., xxxiii, 1903, p. 47.

[260] J. A. H. Murray, New Eng. Dict., ii, 215. Cf. Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, p. 55.

[261] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Implements, 1897, pp. 66, 107.

[262] Ib., pp. 71, 172, 205; Proc. Suffolk Inst. of Archaeology, xi, 1903, p. 329.