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much care of for some years, it had become bkmted before de- 

 posited in its present place of security. I mention these merely 

 as two among numerous authentic instances of wrought-flint finds 

 in Cornwall. In a flint district we should not, probably, so highly 

 regard these flakes and chippings ; and their evidence, in connec- 

 tion with old works, in such a locality, would not have that 

 peculiar interest that may be attached to them when found in 

 Cornwall. By what means flints were brought so far from the 

 sites of their natural occurrence, I n^ed not attempt to explain ; 

 but, from my limited observations in this matter, it has appeared 

 to me that the flints of Cornwall come within the province of the 

 Archaeologist rather than that of the Geologist. Sir Henry De 

 la Beche, in the " Report on the G-eology of Cornwall, Devon, 

 and West Somerset," refers to the flints in raised beaches in the 

 Lizard district, but says it is not easy to account for their presence 

 there ; and in a note he adds : " It is possible that these l>eaches 

 "" have been raised since the country was inhabited by people who 

 ** employed shaped flints in their weapons, and obtained chalk- 

 ^' flints for the purpose, and that many of the flints may have 

 "been thrown down in sheltexed bays and creeks where they 

 ^' were unloaded from the frail barks of the time, becoming sub- 

 " sequently rolled about and mingled with the common pebbles 

 *' of the beach afterwards raised." Adnutting this to be mere 

 conjecture. Sir Henry, in some following remarks, seems to imply 

 that the presence of flints in Cornwall can scarcely be attributed 

 to geological phenomena. Mr. Whitley, on the other hand, has, 

 in the Journal of this In;^titution, contended that the raised 

 beaches are portions of Northern Drift ; and he assigns the occur- 

 rence of flints at Scilly to the same cause. But, by whatever 

 means flints may have come into Cornwall, there can be no doubt 

 -of their having been used- here by man, both as weapons and in 

 the rites of cremation, during the Celtic, and probably at a later, 

 period ; for stone weapons continued to be employed in Anglo- 

 Saxon times. 



Denuded of all the incumbent soil of the mound, the Tre- 

 •wavas Head barrow would appear as a small cromlech enclosed by 

 a circle of stones; and, looking eastward from the spot, there 

 may be had perhaps the best view of the Bishop Rock standing 

 out from the opposite side of the cliff. I know of no other rock in 



