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that there was once a large population in this interesting 

 district. 



Owing to their deposition in damp peat, many of the 

 specimens retain their original translucence. A few such 

 were exhibited by the late Dr. Barham at the Plymouth 

 Congress of the British Association, and I have in my own 

 collection many hundreds. A few of the arrow-heads are 

 very beautiful, and consist of leaf-shaped and barbed forms, 

 whilst some of the flakes are more than three inches long, and 

 their edges are as sharp as on the day on which they were 

 made. I have been informed that near to this lake a 

 barrow was torn down a few years since, and in it was found 

 a bronze spear head, some arrow heads of flint, and some 

 ude pottery. 



Eedgate. — At Whimelford and Nine Stones, on the other side 

 of theFowey, arrow heads, flakes, &c., have been found; and 

 at Eedgate, near the old encampment, the road has been 

 cut through a large barrow. Flakes can be found in the 

 section, and appear as if they had been placed on the earth, 

 after the funeral ceremony, and with the remains of the 

 deceased, over the whole of which the mound had subse- 

 quently been raised. 



Cheese Wring. — At the Cheese Wring, during some " improve- 

 ments," a barrow was destroyed ; in it was found a large urn 

 containing more than a hundred spear heads and arrow-heads 

 of flint ; judging from two specimens of the latter that are 

 now in my possession, they must have been new and 

 unused when deposited in the urn, which probably contained 

 also the ashes of some chieftain of note. 



