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" The case is different with the other two forms of implements, " of which numerous specimens were exhibited ; all indisputably worked by " the hand of man, and not indebted for their shape to any natural " configuration or peculiar fracture of the flint.... "
Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ... - Page 326
1867
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Volumes 3-4

Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1856 - 728 pages
...present no analogy in form to the well-known implements of the so-called Celtic or Stone period, which have, for the most part, some portion if not the whole...character from the ordinary types of stone implements strengthens the probability of their having been found under entirely different circumstances. Mr....
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The Pathfinder, a journal of independent religious reform ..., Volume 2

Philip William Perfitt - 1859 - 448 pages
...possibly used as spear or lance heads, " from two to nine inches in length, and with a cutting edge nil round. " They have generally one end more sharply...entirely different circumstances ; and Mr. Evans then pro" ceeded to examine the evidence of their having been really discovered in " undisturbed beds of...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

Science - 1859 - 394 pages
...fracture of the flint. They present no analogy in form to the well-known implements of the so called Celtic or stone period, which, moreover, have for...to its so-called Celtic occupation. This difference ia form and character from the ordinary types of stone implements strengthened the probability of their...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48

American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...above the drift ; so that it seems probable that they are the remains of a different nice of men, who inhabited this region of the globe at a period anterior to its Celtic occupation. Having been fully satisfied of these facts by his investigation of the Abbeville...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 48

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...above the drift ; so that it seems probable that they are the remains of a different race of men, who inhabited this region of the globe at a period anterior to its Celtic occupation. Having been fully satisfied of these facts by his investigation of the Abbeville...
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Archaia: Or, Studies of the Cosmogony and Natural History of the Hebrew ...

Sir John William Dawson - Bible - 1860 - 466 pages
...certainly artificial. They are described as follows by Mr. Evans, as reported in the j&thenaum: 11 1. Flakes of flint, apparently intended for knives...period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation." The objects found are here admitted to differ from the implements of the primitive Celts, and they...
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Archaia: Or, Studies of the Cosmogony and Natural History of the Hebrew ...

Sir John William Dawson - Bible - 1860 - 436 pages
...almond-shaped implements, from two to nine inches in length, and with a cutting edge all round. Thej hare generally one end more sharply curved than the other,...of the globe at a period anterior to its so-called Celtie occupation." The objects found are here admitted to differ from the implements of the primitive...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 50-51

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...superficial soil above j the drift, or in beds separated by distinct I deposits of stalagmite from those containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other...period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation. It is well worthy of notice, that in all parts of the world in which archœological researches have...
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The National Review, Volume 10

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...superficial soil above the drift, or in beds separated by distinct deposits of stalagmite from those containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other...period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation. It is well worthy of notice, that in all parts of the world in which archaeological researches have...
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National Review, Volume 10

Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...superficial soil above the drift, or in beds separated by distinct deposits of stalagmite from those containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other...period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation. It is well worthy of notice, that in all parts of the world in which archaeological researches have...
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