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indeterminate to be considered as having been used for any 

 purpose by man, it is still puzzling to give them a history^ 

 The nearest flint gravel to Cirencester is at Minety,* but this 

 is lower down the Churn valley. In reading, however, Mr. 

 Lttcy's memoir on the Gravels of the Cotteswolds, I met with 

 a passage (page 100) in which he mentions the occurrence about 

 Moreton-in-the-Marsh, of "a great quantity of flints, some 

 very small, having a chipped appearance." It is by no means 

 impossible that this may be the clue to the flint-flakes at 

 the Barton Pits. 



t Proceedings, 1869, p. 104. 



