Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 400 original illustrations. See 51960-h.htm or 51960-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51960/51960-h/51960-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51960/51960-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/ancientstoneimpl00evaniala Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: S^r). Small capitalss are changed to all capital letters. Original page numbers have been inserted into the text and are shown like this: |81|. Footnotes were changed to endnotes, and renumbered 1–2808. Long descriptive passages in the printed book were marked by a line of white space before and after, and smaller font and line-height. In this e-book the white space separators are displayed as a line of asterisks. THE ANCIENT STONE IMPLEMENTS, WEAPONS AND ORNAMENTS, OF GREAT BRITAIN. Second Edition, Revised. by SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., etc., etc. Correspondant de L’Institut de France. Longmans, Green, and Co. 39, Paternoster Row, London and Bombay 1897 (All rights reserved.) London: Printed by J. S. Virtue and Co., Limited. City Road. |v| PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. In presenting this work to the public I need say but little by way of preface. It is the result of the occupation of what leisure hours I could spare, during the last few years, from various and important business, and my object in undertaking it is explained in the Introduction. What now remains for me to do is to express my thanks to those numerous friends who have so kindly aided me during the progress of my work, both by placing specimens in their collections at my disposal, and by examination of my proofs. Foremost among these must be ranked the Rev. William Greenwell, F.S.A., from whose unrivalled collection of British antiquities I have largely drawn, and from whose experience and knowledge I have received much assistance in other ways. To Mr. A. W. Franks, F.S.A.; Mr. J. W. Flower, F.G.S.; Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S.; Colonel A. Lane Fox, F.S.A.; Mr. E. T. Stevens, of Salisbury; Messrs. Mortimer, of Fimber; Mr. Joseph Anderson, the Curator of the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh; and to numerous others whose names are mentioned in the following pages, my thanks must also be expressed.