FLINT FLAKES IN CORNWALL. 59 



In noting the following localities, it must be understood that 

 the record is necessarily very incomplete, but other workers in the 

 same field may be induced to communicate their own experiences, 

 so that in time the county may be mapped out with records of 

 flint-finds, as has been the case in regard to some other districts. 



Maker. — For the purposes of this notice Maker may be con- 

 d sidered as part of Cornwall, and, taking this station as the 

 most easterly in the county, it is to be recorded — That flint 

 imj)lements and fragments of flint are found in considerable 

 C[uantity on the summit of the porphyry hill, near to the old 

 Fort, in the thin soil that covers it, from which they are turned 

 out by the rabbits in burrowing, and are sometimes washed 

 down by the rain, on the sides of the adjoining gully. The 

 Maker flints, like those at Staddon, on the opposite side of 

 Plymouth Sound, comprise almost all the recognised forms 

 of the smaller implements, such as flakes, scrapers, knives, 

 sling bullets, &c., with cores and many fractured pieces, 

 indicating that the implements were made upon the spot 

 from flint brought from a distance, so that, in all pi"obability, 

 there was once a village upon Maker heights, as well as 

 upon Staddon, although no traces of hut circles or buildings 

 are now to be met with. 



Eame Head. — Within the entrenched portion of this headland 

 I have found a few fractured flints, as well as along the 

 coast to Down Derry ; and on the hills above Lower Tre- 

 gantle, and in the cultivated fields near St. Johns, they are 

 occasionally to be met with. 



The Lizaed. — Throughout the Lizard district, and more 

 especially on Kynance Down, flint flakes, &c., are to be met 

 with in abundance ; here, owing to the thinness of the soil, 

 they never get deeply buried, and they can be picked up at 

 anytime, when portions of the tarf are removed: some of the 

 forms are interesting. 



GooNHiLLY. — On Goonhilly Down, Mr. W. C. Borlase found 

 many hundreds of flakes, &c., in the course of a few hours. 



The Logan Rock. — Flints occur within the entrenched portion 

 of Castle Treryn, and are also found along the cliffs as far as 

 Tol Pedn Pen with. 



