...John Ftere, Esq. This gentleman thinks that the substances in question are evidently weapons ofiuar, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. ' They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into...

...were the first of the kind ever brought to light, and he regarded them as " evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." What struck Mr. Frere most strongly, however, was that they were found twelve feet deep in a bank of...

...supposed to have been made by the same hand. Mr. Frere remarks, that they are evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals, and that, if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves, they must be considered in that light...

...Fully convinced of the artificial character of the flints, Mr. Fiere regarded them as war implements " fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals " — and owing to the situation in which they were found, he was almost tempted to refer them " to...

...light from the situation in which they were found." Mr. Frere considered these flints as weapons of war fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at a depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into...

...of the physical geography of that region. ' The flints,' he said, ' were evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of inetals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil which was...

...specimens from this locality is given in figure 4. Mr. Frere described them as " evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." But little or no attention was paid to the subject until the discovery by M. Boucher de Perthes of...

...Frere had already written in 1797 respecting such flint instruments discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk. " The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period 1 Lyell, ' Antiquity of Man,' chap. xix. indeed, even beyond that of the present world."1 The vast...

...been accepted as an equivalent. Mr. Frere speaks of the flint implements as " evidently weapons of war fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." He further adds : " The manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of...

...been accepted as an equivalent. Mr. Frere speaks of the flint implements as " evidently weapons of war fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." He further adds : " The manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of...