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forms. It is therefore rather remarkable that not many flint 

 implements or weapons were found in our Tumuli. But we have a 

 record of the discovery of a few arrow heads, and some of them of 

 a very unusual and beautiful description. In a Tumulus on 

 Whitechurch Down (C., No. 41), there were nine rudely chipped 

 arrow heads amongst the bones and ashes in a very large sized urn. 

 A few were found in more than one of the Purbeck Barrows (S.) 

 On Woodyates Down Sir K. C. Hoare (N., No. 23) found four 

 with a bronze dagger and skeleton in the contracted posture. On 

 Gussage Down (N., No. 1) Mr. Warne found two flint flakes that 

 may have served as knives. In an oblong Tumulus on Pistle Down 

 Heath (N., No. 19) four very rare and highly finished arrow or 

 javelin-heads were found. They were probably unique types, 

 being of the leaf-shaped form. Dr. Thurnam has remarked on the 

 rarity of this type, and states that there is not one of this kind in 

 Sir R. C. Hoare's Museum; but since this discovery, made in 1828, 

 Dr. Thurnam found four specimens in Wiltshire (Winterborn 

 Stoke, Proceed. Soc. of Antiquaries, Vol, 2, 1864) ; and two more 

 later were found by Canon Greenwell in Yorkshire (Cowlam, Brit. 

 barrows, 1877). There was no urn or other sepulchral deposit 

 found with those on Pistle Down. The form of arrow heads has 

 not been generally specified, and they were probably of the ordinary 

 barbed shape. Flint celts, axes or chisels, were extremely rare. 

 We have not one recorded instance here. The leaf-shaped arrow 

 heads are found in Ireland.* 



3. The stone implements were few ; the most noteworthy speci- 

 men was a remarkably fine axe-head of green stone, perforated for 

 the handle, which was found by Mr. Warne in a Tumulus at 

 Winterborne Stepleton (S., No. 46, Vignette, p. 63, C.T.) with a 

 deposit of burned bones and ashes. A barrow on Roke Down 

 (No. 2, C.) produced two stone amulets amongst bones and ashes 

 in an urn. Another barrow on the Ridgeway (No. 77, S.) 

 contained in an urn, with incinerated bones of the fox or badger, 



* (Vide Wilde's Catalogue of the Irish Academy, p. 22, fig. 22, 23, 25, 

 and Mr. Franks in Horn Ferales p. 135, fig. 39, 41, 42). 



