The stone ages in North Britain and Ireland / by the Rev. Frederick Smith ; with an introduction by Augustus H. Keane.
- Smith, Frederick, Rev.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The stone ages in North Britain and Ireland / by the Rev. Frederick Smith ; with an introduction by Augustus H. Keane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![l)oulder-clay dill’ of Xilliuey ]>ay, Dublin. It was highly rolled and battered before it found its last resting-place, but it still gives its whilom form and its intention. It is an excellent diamond in section, and is an exact duplicate of a number of,finds from the English Pahnolitliic flints and also from Scotland. The projection from the line of the figure (Fig. 507) is a part of the cement-like matrix of Ivilliney Bay cliff. 'Jhvo knife forms of a different rock—ironstone—may here be suitably described. These (Figs. 508 and 509) were found together (most oddly) among seaweed after a storm, some years ago, a mile or two west of jSTorth Berwick. They are striking objects with deflected handles, which strongly recall the Egyp- tian examples before re- ferred to. They are rotten, have lost their orisinal O surface by decomposition, and one is reduced in ^ length. Yet they clearly indicate what they once were. The ([iiartzite series seems also to possess chopper forms sui generis, gQg club - like weapons and Palfeolithic haches of heroic build, and they appear to indicate a peculiar time or fashion in the choice of material and style of elaboration. This is only what I judge should be looked for in this ancient man’s relics. While we in the British Isles in two thousand years have passed through constant change in the form and use of Fig. 509. weapons, fiom the polished stone axe and flint-tipped arrows to the now complicated firearms, who can imagine what changes of peoples, what fads and fashions and social evolutions followed each other during the veil-nigh immeasurable periods of their migratory niovements in north-western Europe ? ”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24885691_0379.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
