found at Aldington, Worcestershire. 113 
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distant localities, and bringing that comparison to bear on the 
illustration of their peculiar or common uses, and it may also serve 
to encourage archeologists to hope that by continued close and 
faithful observation of ancient interments, and articles of use and 
ornament associated with them, a more accurate knowledge may 
be eventually obtained even of the customs, extent of diffusion, and 
epochs of existence of the different races, which have in pre-historic 
ages been successively inhabitants of our island. 















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DESCRIPTION or PLATES VI. anv VII. 
Plate vi. Green-slate wrist-guard (actual size), found associated with two 
_ quern stones at Aldington, Worcestershire. a. Concave surface, b. convex 
: a c. tranverse section. (p. 109.) 
Plate vii., fig. 1. Slate plate found in a tumulus in the island of Skye. It 
. ‘is i in the rassteca of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, at Edinburgh, 
_ No. 267, 3, in their catalogue. a. Convex surface, b. concave surface, ¢c 
_ transverse section. (p. 112.) 
Fig. 2. Plate of chlorite slate, found in a barrow on Roundway Hill, by 
Mr. Cunnington of Devizes, vide Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, vol. ili., 
‘p- 186. Actual size 4,4 in. x 1,3, 
Fig. 3. Plate of blue slate, found by the late Mr. Cunnington of Heytesbury, 
at Sutton Veney, vide Hoare’s Ancient Wiltshire, vol. i., p. 103, where it is 
described as a breast-plate. It is engraved in plate xii. of that work, 
