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B U C K IN G H A M SH IR E
F r e - H i s t o r i c M a n .â F lin t I m p l e m e n t s , the tools of the
early inhabitants of this country before they became acÂ
quainted w ith the use of m etals, have been found in
«everal places in Bucks. These stone tools m ay be divided
into two classes : (a) those belonging to an older or Palaol it h ir stone age, being m erely chipped into shape; and (b)
those belonging to a newer or N eolithic stone age, in which
the tools were often rubbed and polished as well as chipped.
Palaeolithic stone im plem ents have been found at Iver,
Dawley, Langley, G reat Missendeu, Burnham , Taplow, and
M arlow ; for the m ost part th ey are lumps of flint from
four or five to nine or ten inches in length, and are either
spear-shaped or oval in shape : th ey m ay have been used in
warfare, or for grubbing up the soil, or for m aking holes in
the ice for fishing, e tc .; these Palseoliths are usually found in
[ k e l l y âs
the old gravels which occur m any feet above the level of
the existing rivers.
N eolithic stone tools have been found at Pulpit Wood,
near Princes Risborough, which appears to have been the
site of an ancient encampm ent, and flakes of flint occur
there in numbers, they w ere probably used as k n iv e s ;
rounded tools, called scrapers, which would be useful in
cleansing skins, have been found here too ; a rude flint
arrow-head was found by Sir John Evans in 1866, on the
surface of a field near Edlesborough, at the foot of the chalk
hills, and a polished â celt â or axehead occurred at Chalvey
Wood, Eton W ick. M any m ore would doubtless turn up if
th ey were intelligently looked for.
W . J e r o m e H a r r i s o n , F.G .S.