46 On the Leaf-shaped Type of Flint Arroio-head, 



despoiled of its points ; injuries which it was conjectured had been 

 purposely inflicted. When complete, they must have measured, 

 the one 2^^, the other, Ij^^ inches in length ; the breadth of each 

 is j^o of an inch.^ 



Curiosity being thus excited, I was induced to inquire whether 

 a connection could be established between this particular type of 

 silicious arrow-head and the long barrow. Possibly, in consequence 

 of the abundance of flint flakes and splinters on the surface of the 

 chalk in Wiltshire, the presence of the simpler sorts of flint objects 

 in the barrows was sometimes overlooked in the excavations made 

 by Sir R. C. Hoare and Mr. Cunnington, early in this century. 

 However this may be, it is certain that no flint implements or 

 weapons are mentioned as having been found in the ten or twelve 

 long barrows opened for the most part by the latter gentleman.^ 



Derbyshire is differently circumstanced as regards flint, which 

 must have been imported from a distance, and the long and chambered 

 barrows of that county and of Staffordshire differ in important res- 

 pects from those of Wilts and Gloucestershire. On turning how- 

 ever to the descriptions by Mr. Bateman of his researches in these 

 barrows, I find indications of the connection of the leaf-shaped 

 flint arrow-head with the long barrows of that part of England. 

 In that, from its form called Long Lowe, near Wetton, Staffordshire, 

 in a cist containing thirteen skeletons, were discovered " three very 

 finely chipped flint arrow-heads," which, from the notice on the next 

 page, may be presumed to have been " leaf-shaped." ^ In a cist in 

 another long (?) barrow, called Ringham Lowe, Mr. Bateman "found 

 three very beautiful leaf-shaped arrow-points of white flint, one of 

 which, considering the material," is, he says, "of wonderful execution; 

 it measures 2j in. in length, is an inch broad in the middle, and 

 weighs less than 48 grains, although it is not made from a thin 



^ For this barrow see Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2iid series, vol. ii., p. 275. Crania 

 Britannica, plate xxvii., 69, p. (3). Small and not very good woodcuts of the 

 arrow-heads are given by Mr. Lysons in his recent work, entitled " Our British 

 Ancestors," 1865, p. 150. 



2 Archffiologia, vol. xv., pp. 340, 345. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p"ssim. 



3 Ten Tears' Diggings, 1861, pp. 145, 146. Catalogue, p. 37, 208 C. See 

 the " Reliquai-y," vol. v., p. 27, for a ground -plan of Long Lowe, and a further 

 description. 



