On the Flint Implements and Weapons found at Bridlington

Abstract

The pre-historic history of Britain can only be illustrated by means of an extensive collection of ancient relics, carefully examined and arranged, and by the facts which they disclose being received with unprejudiced judgment; but the extent of our researches must not be considered as bounded by the stone circle and the barrow: there are other resources of equal extent and value, if not far greater, at our command. One of these is a collection of the various weapons and implements left by the inhabitants in the Ancient British villages. These may be gathered up, with all their circumstantial information attached to them, as little affected by time as the deposits in the tombs, if done with discretion and care. The object of this Paper is to relate discoveries of this kind at Bridlington, in this county; but before doing so, I wish to point out, very briefly, the connection which exists between various sources of information which contribute their quota to increase our knowledge of the earliest inhabitants. Yorkshire appears to have been peopled as soon as any part of the island, and the immigrants who first set foot upon the shore have left memorials of the event, which are still visible in the foundations of their huts and the implements they used; and I may say they communicate their history as correctly as the people would have written it themselves, if we read it with a steady recollection of their position and circumstances. At Bridlington we find they ...