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the short-headed race in the round barrows. To the former 

 he attributed priority in age, considering them to be the 

 builders of most of the great pre-historic works in our 

 island. Stonehenge, for instance, probably the most recent 

 of the three large stone circles in our neighbourhood, was, in 

 his opinion, of a date prior to many of the earthen barrows 

 which encircle it, and was erected by the short-headed people, 

 the Belgse, for the object of sun worship, and for astronomical 

 purposes. The long barrows and round stone tumuli cover 

 the remains of the long-headed great building races of 

 ancient times, the constructors of Cromlechs, Avebury and 

 Stanton Drew. These structures, he thought, with flint flakes, 

 arrow heads, &c., were the earliest records of the human race 

 in Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Wales. 

 Great credit was due to Dr. Bird for the pains which he 

 had taken in illustrating his subject with diagrams and 

 specimens, and the thanks of the Members were returned 

 to him — not, however, without a certain amount of dissent 

 having been expressed at some of the theories brought for- 

 ward. The object of Mr. Win wood's remarks was to call 

 the attention of the Club, in their Walks and Excursions, to 

 the numerous traces of these ancient people, as seen in their 

 flint " flakes," " scrapers," and " cores ;" disclaiming, at the 

 outset, any intention to connect his subject with the question 

 of the antiquity of the human race — a question which does not 

 depend for its proof on these comparatively recent works of man 

 — he endeavoured to show how the evidence of design was 

 plainly traceable in the fractured flints exhibited that evening; 

 that they were plentifully distributed in places where, from the 

 traces of ancient occupation, they might reasonably be looked 

 for; and that they were very similar in form to the implements 

 in use by the savages in the present day in America and other 

 parts of the world. Enumerating the places in Devon and 

 Cornwall where they were found in such abundance, he stated 



