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flint is lying on bare sand. Here I got some bits of a polished 
axe of fine grained felstone. Perhaps the majority of British 
“celts” have been made of this substance, and yet no rock has 
been found in the British Isles which could have supplied the 
material. This dark layer had certainly never been laid bare to 
the weather since the axe-fragments were first covered up, as the 
fine polishing and minute scratches were still quite apparent on its 
surface, and the edge remarkably sharp. Along with it were a 
flint skinning knife, a hollow scraper, some ordinary scrapers, 
plain hand-made pottery fragments, and abundance of broken 
stones and flint chips. I worked for several days at this of-old 
inhabited surface, which had at one time been covered deep in 
blown sand, and found no other kind of articles than those 
mentioned, but the searcher may dig for a long time at certain 
favourable-looking spots without getting any antiquarian reward at 
all, and fails by not continuing his efforts long enough, for the 
antiques are sometimes thinly scattered. The wind, of course, is 
the great searcher-out of these old articles, and it is only he who 
has the time and opportunity to follow where it lays bare that can 
expect to reap the harvest of the wind. 
Rubbers, whetstones, and polishers are frequent, the polishers, 
in fact, abundant, and burnishers are occasionally got. I know of 
no polished flint article having ever been found on the Torrs (or 
in Ayrshire), with the exception of the doubtful natives already 
mentioned, so that articles of this description got here have 
probably been used for rubbing and polishing stone, beads and 
whorls, “celts” or hammer-axes, etc., or for bronze or iron 
articles. It is not uncommon to find stones which had been 
utilized as combined hammers and polishers. 
Needle-sharpeners, or at least stones used for giving a finished 
sharp point to articles, are not uncommon ; and grooved stones, 
which had evidently been used in forming the outside curves of 
coal bracelets and rings, rarely occur. 
Pins of bronze, with riveted-on and twisted-wire heads, are not 
unfrequent, and perhaps commonest at the Laigh Torrs huts. I 
have picked up a score of them mostly on the new ground. 
They are also frequent at the “ Roman Camp” on new ground ; 
it appears to mark the boundary of the antiquarian area in that 
direction. Bronze articles are frequently got; and I have a very 
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