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ON Tuesday last, the 6th inst., I found on the west shore of this bay a very fine specimen of a flint celt, quite perfect. The cliff in the immediate vicinity is composed of fluviatile clays, capped with a thin bed of Bembridge limestone, in a very broken state: the vegetable soil resting on the latter is only from five to ten inches deep. Perhaps it may interest some of your readers if you do me the favour to notice this. It is rather remarkable that the spot on which the celt was found should be within thirty yards of the site of a Roman building discovered by me in 1864.
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SMITH, E. A Flint Ceit. Nature 11, 466–467 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011466c0
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