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on the crest of Lychpole Hill, about half a mile south-east of the 
entrenchment ; another about 400 yards to the east ; and the 
other on the spur of the Downs, known as Mount Carvey, which 
slopes from Cissbury towards Broadwater. Flakes, cores, scrapers, 
cooking stones, refuse axes, &c., are to be found in spots 
throughout the length and breadth of this latter spur ; but the 
example marked on the map has proved the most typical and 
most productive. The areas of these and the other sites I have 
yet to mention are very varied, some being less than a quarter of 
an acre in extent, whilst, in others, the “ finds” lay scattered in 
groups over several acres. 
The next ordnance sheet shows the positions of three com- 
paratively small but very productive sites bordering the summit 
of the eastern escarpment of the Downs in the neighbourhood of 
Beachy Head. For the purpose of reference I have indicated 
these respectively as A, B, and C. A is situated on the northern 
slope of Crapham Hill, C on Pea Down, and B about half a mile 
north on the same spur of the Downs known as the Peak. In 
this district I have failed to come across one perfect axe, my 
discoveries being confined to refuse portions of small but 
beautifully chipped axes, and to the usual well-formed flakes, 
showing evidence of expert workmanship, scrapers, needle makers, 
&c. On site B an acquaintance of mine recently discovered a 
perfect and delicately worked barbed arrowhead when walking 
over the ground with me. 
The marked scarcity of large and complete axes in this dis- 
trict is, in my opinion, obviously due to the depredations of the 
ubiquitous stone-picker. Last year, when working the Beachy 
Head district, I came across a dozen men, women, and boys who 
were engaged in picking flints for road material from the cultivated 
land, and I found that, owing to their frequent conversations with 
collectors, every man, woman, and boy had become possessed of 
sufficient knowledge to recognise a ‘‘ war-stone ”’—the name it has 
pleased them to give a flint axe—whose value might represent 
anything from sixpence to as many shillings, according to the 
excellence of the specimen and to the length of the collector’s 
purse. But, in many instances, the stone-picker is not so 
acquainted with a rudimentary knowledge of these artificially 
chipped flints, and consequently many (yes, very many) beautiful 
specimens are gathered and subsequently cracked up as road 
material. In this way the Downs are being rapidly denuded of 
the flint implements. Happily, however, the majority of the 
smaller tools are left behind, and thus afford sufficient evidence to 
enable one to still trace the spots where they most abound. 
Last year, when walking by the side of the cultivated field 
which adjoins the Dyke Road in front of the Booth Museum,— 
the site Mr Councillor Carden lately proposed as a new park for 
Brighton,—my eye was arrested by.a beautiful little scraper which 
