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The identity of the manufacturers of the chipped quartzite implements which 

 are found in Southern India is less clear, but suggestions regarding it were also 

 offered by the author. 



The paper was illustrated by diagrams, showing the'principal forms of the stone 

 implements which have hitherto been found in India, by a map showing the areas 

 of distribution, and by some specimens. 



2. On the Discovery of certain Pockets of Chipped Flints beneath the Peat on 

 the Yorkshire Moors, near Halifax. By James W. Davis, F.S.A., F.G.S. 



The hilly country to the north and west of Halifax forms a part of the great 

 Penine Anticlinal, which extends from the borders of Westmoreland southwards to 

 Derbyshire. It is composed entirely of millstone grit rocks, except small exposures 

 of Yoredale shales at Todmorden and Diggle. Thick massive beds of sandstone 

 crown all the hill-tops, forming extensive plateaus with a regular dip towards the 

 south-east. This plateau is broken through by the river Calder and its tributaries,, 

 exposing still greater thicknesses of shale beneath the several sandstones. The 

 plateaus of grit rock are almost universally covered with heather and peat, the 

 latter averaging from six to twelve feet in thickness. On these moorlands, north of 

 Halifax, quarrying operations are carried on, and in the district about Warley Moor 

 and Fly-flats, 1,200 to 1,300 feet above the sea level, discoveries have been made of 

 numerous fragments of flint, evidently chipped from larger cores. They are found 

 beneath the peat, near the surface of the rock. There is no locality nearer than the 

 chalk wolds of East Yorkshire where the parent flints can be obtained in situ, and 

 this leads to the inference that they were carried to their present situation for the 

 purpose of manufacturing flint implements, and that this must have taken place a 

 long time ago, from the great accumulation of peat above them. 



3. On an elaborately finished Celt found on the Moors near Marsden. 

 By James W. Davis, F.S.A., F.G.S. 



Several years since a smoothly-polished axe-head was found on the hills about 

 a mile north-west of Marsden, whilst boring for an extension of quarrying operations. 

 It was found beneath a considerable thickness of peat on the surface of the rock. 

 The implement is flint, 5 inches long, 2£ inches broad at the cutting end, and 1} inches 

 thick about the centre, converging to a sharp edge at each end. The cutting edge 

 is considerably fractured by use. 



4. On some curious Leathern and Wooden Objects from Tullyrearjh Bog, 

 County Antrim. By W. J. Knowles. 



The author lately obtained from a workman some curious objects made of 

 leather. One is the greater part of the hide of some animal very roughly tanned, 

 out of which so many pieces have been cut of a diamond or oblong shape that what 

 remains looks like a wide-meshed net. It was found surrounding a wooden vessel, 

 made from a single piece of wood, and the thought has occurred to the author that 

 it may have been used for surrounding heavy objects that required to be carried. It 

 would be more suitable for that purpose, owing to its greater pliability, than a com- 

 plete piece of hide. The other leathern object was a lid for another wooden vessel, 

 also made from a single piece of wood. This vessel is still perfect, and measures 

 1 foot 4 inches in height, and is in diameter 1 foot 2 inches at top, and 1 foot 

 4 inches at bottom. The other vessel is broken up, but both contained, when 

 found, what the workman described as a creamy substance, which flowed away 

 when the vessels were taken out. 



