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“Discoidal Polished Flint—their Typology and Distribution.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

J. G. D. Clark
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Before studying the significance of the series of implements generally known as ‘discoidal polished flint knives,’ I should like first to acknowledge printed sources of informatıon, and secondly, assistance rendered by correspondents and curators of various collections. Many years ago Sir John Evans recognised the type and described and figured several examples in his ‘Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,’ and later, in Volume XLIV., pages 97–100 of the Wiltshire Archæological Magazine, Dr. R. C. C. Clay collected some sixty odd records, which he classified according to their shape. The excuse for this paper is that it is an attempt to extract from as wide data as possible the significance of the forms and distribution of the type as a whole. In accumulating the necessary evidence I have received especial help from Mr. Burkitt, who has enabled me to handle the fine series in the Museum at Cambridge; from Mr. Leeds, who gave me access to the specimens of the Evans Collection now in the Ashmolean; from the Curators of London, Norwich and Ipswich Museums, who sent me interesting records; from Mr. Graham Callander, who not only checked my list for Scotland, but who also contributed new records and helpful suggestions. In addition, several private collectors have kindly let me have records of their specimens, and, in many cases, illustrations.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 1929 , pp. 41 - 54
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1929

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page 45 note 2 B.M. Stone Age Guide, Pl. VIII fig. 9.

page 45 note 3 B.M. Stone Age Guide, 2nd. Ed., figs, 136, 137.

page 45 note 4 There is only one case in which one of the knives which form our main concern was made of any material other than flint. The example shown in Evans 2nd Ed. fig. 259, from Harome, Yorkshire, appears to be typical of the triangular variety. It is made of a “hard slaty rock of the nature of hone-stone.”

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