...is probably now in Parkinfon's Muieum. The fituation in which thefe weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the prefent world \ but, whatever our conjectures on that head may be, it will be difficult to account...

...was strictly scientific. "The situation," he writes, " in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." The surmise has since been proved to be as accurate as it was sagacious ; but if it commended itself...

...which decayed on exposure. Mr. Frere remarks that "the situation in which they were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." — Archtxologia, vol. xiii. p. 204. published in England, and in 1854 Dr. Rigollot, a French geologist,...

...evidently weapons of war, fabricated arid used by a people who had not the use of metals ; " and he is " tempted to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." He anticipated Boucher dePerthes's observations by fifty year?, and his memory deserves being rescued...

...Their association witli the bones of extinct animals is distinctly stated, and their date referred ' to a very remote period, indeed even beyond that of the ' present world ; ' a conclusion as definite as any at which even in the present day we seem able to arrive. The idea...

...ffoxne, in Suffolk, England, and he remarked, " the situation in which they are found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world !" They were found in a gravel bed two feet thick and twelve * feet below the surface. Little or no...

...of Hoxne, in Suffolk, England, and he remarked, "the situation in which they are found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world !" They were found in a gravel bed two feet thick and twelve feet below the surface. Little or no notice,...

...people who had not the use of metals . . . The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world." Thus, even at the commencement of the present century, they were in possession, in England, of proofs...

...shows himself to have been so much struck by the situation in which the implements were found us to be tempted to refer them " to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world." Mr. Frere states that the implements or weapons, as he terms them, lay in great numbers at the depth...

...the country lanes. Mr. Frere, who gave a description of them, observes, " That they may be referred to a very remote period, indeed even beyond that of the present world." With the worked flints of Hoxne were found fossil bones of enormous size, suggesting their kindred...