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iEtritovtal Notes. 



A.TURAL HISTORY.— It is a matter of regret that, 

 for some years, this section of the objects of the 

 Society has been sadly neglected in the pages of the 

 Journal. Although fewer, perhaps, in number, those 

 of our readers who are interested in the subject are, 

 surely, not less zealous than our archaeologists, and fnjm 

 them papers dealing with the natural history of our county 

 are n(jw invited. It may be mentioned that in response 

 to this appeal, Professor Boyd Dawkins has already promised, 

 for our next volume, his notes upon the recent important 

 discoveries in Derbyshire of prehistoric mammalian remains. 



Discovery of a Neolithic Celt on Row^arth Moor. — 

 Whilst levelling a marshy field, immediately to the west of his 

 house, Mr. Abner Froggatt, of Ring Stones Farm, near Hayfield, 

 discovered a stone celt of unusual interest. It is a beautiful 

 specimen of the late polished series, measuring gl ins. long 

 by 2| ins. at the broader, but diminishing to 2 ins. at the nar- 

 rower end, and has a perfect oval section, with a rounded 

 edge. When found it bore neither chip nor scratch on its 

 highly-polished surface, and therefore may be presumed to have 

 been almost unused. Mr. Froggatt states that there were no 

 signs of a mound or tumulus above it, although it lay amongst 

 some large stones, but he did not notice their position. These 

 stones have been credited, in the newspapers, with Druidical 

 origin, and one of them has even been seriously described as 

 " the Arch-Druid's chair of sacrifice " — whatever that may mean 

 — but, of course, they are merely the result of Nature's handi- 

 work, untouched by the chisel of man. 



