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Flint implements found in Ireland, 1865. Creator: Unknown.

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Flint implements found in Ireland, 1865. Finds made by George Morant junior near a lake called Ballyhoe. 'Flint is not found naturally in this part of Ireland; nevertheless,...we have picked up and dug out of the bog some hundreds of flint and chert implements, comprising arrow-heads of highly-finished types, spearheads, 'scrapers,' and other articles...We have found the flints for the most part just beneath the sod; others deeper in the bog...It would be impossible to persuade anyone who had found, as we have, these flint implements, whether lying on the surface of the boggy margin of the lake or in the bog itself undisturbed for who can say how many ages, that they were accidents of nature, and not worked and brought to the spots where we found them by the hand of man'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A34_263

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Droits gérés

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12,3Mo (820,8Ko) / 21,6cm x 14,3cm / 2556 x 1686 (300dpi)

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