and its connection mth Long Barrows. 



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flake, but is elaborately chipped all over both surfaces." From 

 another cist in the same barrow, " two very beautiful leaf-shaped 

 arrow-heads of white flint " were obtained.^ 



Another instance, also recorded by Mr. Bateman, is from a mound 

 described as a long barrow, in Yorkshire, near Heslerton-on-the- 

 Wolds, in the East Riding. Near the centre, was a pile of about 

 fifteen skeletons, with the skull of one of which " was a small and 

 neat flint arrow-head," which, from a sketch by Mr. LI. Jewitt, I 

 find is leaf-shaped. It is rather broader in proportion than those 

 from the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire long-barrows, from which 

 it likewise differs in retaining both its points. It measures Ifg of 

 an inch in length, by fg in breadth.^ 



During the summer of 1865, I had an opportunity of opening a 

 long barrow of great extent on Fyfield Hill, near Pewsey, Wilt- 

 shire, locally known as " the Giant's Grave." It is not less than 

 315 feet in length, by 70 feet in width at the east, and 50 feet at 

 the west, and is about 7 feet high at the east end. A moderately 

 wide trench runs along each side, but is not continued round the 

 ends of the barrow. On the natural level, near the east end, a 

 heap of three or four skeletons was found, the 

 only perfect skull from which is of a remarkably 

 long and narrow form, the breadth being as '69 

 to the length taken as I'OO. One of the other 

 skulls had been forcibly cleft before burial. 

 The only object of antiquity with the skeletons 

 was a finely-chipped arrow-head of flint, of a 

 beautiful leaf-shape, and weighing forty-three 

 grains : the point of its more tapering extremity 

 was broken off" when found, as represented in 

 the woodcut. It has measured 2 inches in length, 

 by 1^0 inch in breadth ; or 51 by 23 millimetres. 



Leaf- shaped Arrow- 

 head of Flint, from Long 

 Barrow at Fyfield, Wilts. 

 (Actual size.) 



The repeated discovery of simple leaf- shaped 

 flint arrow-heads in the long barrows, must, I 

 think, be regarded as something more than a 



1 Ten Years' Diggings, pp. 95, 96, « Ibid, pp. 230, 276. Comp. p. 227. 



