A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE 



worn quartzite pebble 4I inches in length and 3I inches in 

 breadth. It has had a large piece chipped off one end, and has 

 since it was found been broken across and mended. 



(c) A piece of grit with a cavity of about | of an inch deep in 

 it. Probably half a stone hammerhead which has been broken in 

 two. A fresh hole has been begun to be bored in the larger half. 

 (a) Two stone spindle wheels. 



(e) A small sub-cyhndrical piece of the local new red sand- 

 stone about 1 1 inches in length and | of an inch in diameter. 

 {/) A small ball of limestone about i inch in diameter. 

 (g) Arrowheads of different kinds. 



i. Leaf-shaped. One of them is worked in white flint, 

 another of a quartzite stone, one side with a smooth rounded 

 surface, the other with a rough fractured surface. 

 ii. Triangular, 

 iii. Tanged, 

 iv. Tanged and barbed. 

 V. Single-barbed. 

 (/6) Borers or awls. 



(/) Scrapers, both of the varieties known as thumb and 

 finger flints. 



(k) Flakes of various shapes and sizes. 

 All these have been collected on his farm there by Mr. John 

 Moore of Tutnall, Tardebigge, at various times and are now in his 

 possession. They have been described and figured in the Proceedings of 

 the Birmingham Archceological Association, 1896, and in Froc. Soc. Atitiq., 

 March, 1897. 



This completes the Worcestershire list of Prehistoric implements so 

 far as is known. There are doubtless more which have not been re- 

 corded ; perhaps the publication of this list may bring some of them 

 to light. Should this be the case, as individual specimens have little if 

 any value to the possessor, while their collective value as part of a series 

 is considerable, it may be hoped that the owners will at least deposit 

 them for a time in the Victoria Museum at Worcester, so that the list 

 of county implements may be made as complete as possible. 

 At present it stands as follows : — 



Avon Valley 13 



Severn Valley 20 



Teme Valley 2 



Mid-Worcestershire il 



Of these only 1 1 are available for study — 9 in the Victoria Museum 

 at Worcester, i in the British Museum and i in the Museum of the 

 Society of Antiquaries. Of the remainder 15 are known to be in the 

 possession of individuals, while the localities of the remaining 20 are 

 unknown. 



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