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chipped off iii making more important implements ; or were themselves 

 designed to be completed for arrow-heads, laide knives or the like, or 

 even used as such in their present form. 



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Sir Richard Hoare, in speaking of the Barrows of JSTorth Wilts, which 

 I think were intimately connected with our Cotteswold examples, says 

 that he found in them " no costly ornaments of jet, amber, or gold," 

 such as "so often had rewarded his labours in the southern district of 

 the county," and he hence draws an inference as to the " very high 

 antiquity " of the Tumuli near Avebury, and also as to the "poverty" of 

 the clan of Britons who inhabited these downs.* 



Both North Wilts and this Hill-district of Gloucestershire were 

 peopled by the Dobuni ; and as Dr. Thurnam attributes the skulls from 

 Uley, and some from West Keunet, in North Wilts, t to a very early 

 pre-Eoman period, we may probably assign to the same period the remains 

 I have been describing. 



* Quoted from a Paper on the Barrows of North Wilts, by Dr. Thurnam, in the 

 Wilts Archceological and Natural History Magazine, 1860, vol. vi, p. 317. 



t The West Kennet Chambered Barrow and Skulls are described in The 

 Archceologia, vol xxxviii., p. 405 ; and in Crania Britannica, Decade V. pL 50. 



