144 Sheppavd : Neolithic Implements from East Yorkshire. 



that the weapon is made from black flint, which occurs in the 

 ch'ifts of East Yorkshire. This material has probably been 

 derived from an outcrop in the bed of the North Sea. The 

 flint occurring in the Yorkshire chalk is light coloured and too 

 brittle for making these fine weapons. 



Flint axe-head, in the rough, from Bridlington. 



Actual size. 



The flint axe-head figured herewith is remarkable for its 

 unusually small size, and for the fact that it is unfinished. I 

 picked it up on the beach just south-west of 'Danes' Dyke,' 

 near Bridlington, recently. There had been a fall of cliff at 

 the point which is a favourite collecting ground for flint im- 

 plements. The axe-head is still 'in the rough,' and has not 

 been polished and sharpened. It is not often that implements 

 are found in this state in East Yorkshire, though they are 

 common in Denmark. At the small end the ' bulb of per- 

 cussion ' is shown, and all round the axe there are flakings, 

 carefully struck off. It is of dark flint, is 2^ inches in length, 

 i| inches in width, and ^ in. in thickness. 



It is worthy of note that at this particular point on the 

 cliff top, as well as at another place south of Bridlington, it is 

 fairly clear that there was a neolithic implement factory, as 

 ' flakes,' and implements in various degrees of finish, are found 

 in enormous numbers. 



BIRDS. 



Hen Harrier near Whitby. — Early in February a female 

 Hen Harrier {Circus cyaneiis) was shot on the Mulgrave estate, 

 four miles from Whitby. — T. Stephenson, Whitby. 



Early arrival of Pied Wagtail. — In Spring this bird 

 usually arrives in the Whitby district about the middle of 

 March. This year three males were observed near Whitby on 

 Sunday, February 27th. — Thos. Stephenson, Whitby. 



Naturalist, 



