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Petrographical Identification of Stone Axes1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1950

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Footnotes

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Contributed by permission of the Director, Geological Survey and Museum.

Note.—Numbers in brackets prefixed by E. refer to the specimens in the English Sliced Rock Collection of the Geological Survey, and those prefixed by ENQ. refer to the Sliced Enquiries Collection. Numbers in brackets not prefixed by a letter refer to the sliced implements lent by Dr Wallis, on behalf of the Petrological Sub-Committee of the South-western Group of Museums and Art Galleries.

References

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page 191 note 3 Proc. Prehist. Soc., VII (1941), p. 63 and XIII (1947), pp. 41–2Google Scholar.

page 193 note 1 Keiller, A., Piggott, S. and Wallis, F. S., Proc. Preh. Soc. vol. VII (1941), p. 63 Google Scholar. ‘First Report … on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes; Stone, J. F. S. and Wallis, F. S., Proc. Preh. Soc., vol. XIII (1947), pp. 41–2Google Scholar. ‘Second Report … on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes.’

page 193 note 2 Mem. Geol. Survey, ‘Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey for 1920,’ p. 56 Google Scholar.