Frere's words are well-known and memorable: "....if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves... must I think be considered in that light, from the situation in which they were found They are, I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and... The Anthropological Review - Page 781863Full view - About this book
| 1802 - 570 pages
...John Ftere, Esq. This gentleman thinks that the substances in question are evidently weapons ofiuar, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. ' They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising... | |
| 1886 - 664 pages
...was aware, they were the first of the kind ever brought to light, and he regarded them as " evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." What struck Mr. Frere most strongly, however, was that they were found twelve feet deep in a bank of... | |
| John Evans - 1860 - 92 pages
...they might be supposed to have been made by the same hand. Mr. Frere remarks, that they are evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals, and that, if not particularly objects of curiosity in themselves, they must be considered in that light... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...Fully convinced of the artificial character of the flints, Mr. Fiere regarded them as war implements " fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals " — and owing to the situation in which they were found, he was almost tempted to refer them " to... | |
| Samuel Joseph Mackie - 1861 - 664 pages
...Frere, at Home, Suffolk. AD, 1787. They are, I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug for the purpose of raising clay... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 pages
...the actual state of the physical geography of that region. ' The flints,' he said, ' were evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who...not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 576 pages
...the actual state of the physical geography of that region. ' The flints,' he said, ' were evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of inetals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil which was... | |
| Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1869 - 756 pages
...illustration of the specimens from this locality is given in figure 4. Mr. Frere described them as " evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." But little or no attention was paid to the subject until the discovery by M. Boucher de Perthes of... | |
| Louis Figuier - 1870 - 440 pages
...after having given a description of them in the ' Archaeologia ' of 1800, with this remark : . . . " Fabricated and used by a 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... | |
| Royal Society of Canada - 1890 - 606 pages
...would then have been accepted as an equivalent. Mr. Frere speaks of the flint implements as " evidently weapons of war fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals." He further adds : " The manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of... | |
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