IV.—On a Flint Implement from the Barnwell Gravel

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A few weeks ago a flint implement was found in the gravel-pit at Barnwell, near Cambridge, by the workmen, from whom I bought it. It is a very fine specimen of the hache type, its greatest length being 6¾ins., its greatest breadth 3⅝ins., and thickness 2⅛. It corresponds closely with specimens in the Woodwardian Museum, from Thetford, in Suffolk, and from Amiens. It agrees almost exactly in size and outline with an implement of the “River-drift type,” figured by Dr. John Evans in his beautiful work on the “Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain”; from Biddenham, Bedford (fig. 414, p. 481); also with one from Redhill, Thetford (fig. 427, ½ nat. size, p. 496, op. cit.).