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marks of the cutting-, and the way in which the brow tine has been 

 removed and the hole pierced through, flint tools appear to have 

 been used in forming the implement ; and most of the cuts seem as 

 if made by a flint saw, rather than with a sharp-edged flake, 

 although some few of them may be due to the employment of the 

 last-named implement. The hammer shows signs of having been 

 much used, the part from whence the brow tine springs and the 

 burr at the same place being worn quite smooth. The other end 

 is also much smoothened at the edges, and has been splintered in 

 four places. It must therefore have been in constant use, for no 

 merely occasional employment could have worn away the burr and 

 the part of the horn near it to the extent described, and hence it 

 would appear that it may be more safely regarded as an implement 

 rather than a weapon ; and if a suggestion may be hazarded, I should 

 be inclined to suppose that it may have been an instrument with 

 which flint flakes were struck off" from the block, in the first process 

 of the fabrication of implements of that material. Six feet east of the 

 centre and upon the natural surface, were numerous fragments of 

 dark-coloured, plain pottery, lying close together, and which had 

 probably, at the time of deposit, constituted an entire vessel. Ten 

 feet south-east of the centre was a hole, 2^ ft. in diameter and 

 1| ft. deep, containing nothing but the same material as that of 

 the mound itself. Six feet west of the centre, and about 1 ft. 

 above the natural surface, was the body of a young person, laid on 

 the right side, with the head to S.W. ; behind the head was a 

 round flint scraper. Six feet north of the centre, and upon the 

 natural surface, was the body of an adult, almost certainly a female ; 

 it was laid upon the left side, the head to E., the right arm was 

 extended at a right angle from the side, and the left hand was up 

 to the face ; under the hips was a very beautifully-made willow- 

 leaf-shaped arrow-point of flint [fig. 27], 1|- in. long and | in. wide. 

 The ankle end of the right tibia was placed in contact with the hip, 

 and in company with it was an astragalus ; the left tibia was in its 

 proper position ; the head of the right femur had the ball end out 

 of the socket, and was turned outwards ; all these displacements 

 showing that some, at all events, of the bones had been relaid. 

 There can be little doubt that the body was that of a woman, and 

 therefore the occurrence of an arrow-point associated with the in- 

 terment is remarkable. The body however had unquestionably 

 been at one time disturbed and replaced, and it is more than pro- 

 bable that the arrow-point had no connection with it beyond its 



