Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and EthnologyJohn Wilson and Son, 1880 |
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Page 45 - Abbott, which are apparently as clearly artificial as are the well-known remains of the valley of the Somme, there are all grades of imperfect fragments down to the pebbles that are without a trace of chipping. All that I have seen, with a single exception, both of the perfectly and the imperfectly chipped fragments are made of a curious granular argillite, the like of which I do not know in place.