On some Flint Arrow-heads(?) from near Baggy Point, North Devon
1862; Geological Society of London; Volume: 18; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1144/gsl.jgs.1862.018.01-02.23
ISSN2058-105X
Autores Tópico(s)Marine and environmental studies
ResumoBeneath the surface-soil (at the depth of 18 inches from the top) above the “raised beaches” of North Devon and Cornwall, the author has observed broken flints; and even at the Scilly Isles such flints are found. At Croyde Bay, about half-way between Middle-Borough and Baggy Point, at the mouth of a small transverse valley, Mr. Whitley found them in considerable number, collecting about 200 specimens. About 25 per cent. of the splintered flints at this place have more or less of an arrow-head form, but they pass by insensible gradations from what appear to be perfect arrow-heads of human manufacture to such rough splinters as are evidently the result of natural causes. Hence the author suggested that great caution should be used in judging what flints have been naturally, and what have been artificially shaped.
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