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tlie end, whicli may well have 

 been set in a horn socket, as was 

 the ease with some of the Swiss 

 Lake specimens. But I would 

 especially draw attention to the 

 small piece of ground flint from 

 excavation No . 3 1 . Ground flints 

 are not common in England, but 

 it is certainly remarkable that 

 out of the many thousands of 

 specimens we have found on 

 Carn Brea, only two show the 

 slightest evidence of having been 

 ground. The knives, from Nos. 

 45 and 47, and the fragment of 

 a saw, from excavation No. 34, 

 are also worthy of notice. 



On the card marked are 



several very pretty things. The 



little tool to the right of the top 



line seems adapted for knife, 



cutter, and scraper ; next is a 



bronze ring, probably a fibula 



(apparently late Celtic or 



Eoman), then a ring (from No. 



24) which is evidently brass and 



modern, — then a neat little 



muller of grit, from dwelling No. 



17 (see illustration), well adapted 



for rubbing pigments — then a 



neat circular hammer-stone with 



finger and thumb depressions, 



similar to specimens of the same 



from some of the Swiss Lake 



Sm^,ll Muller of Grit from dwelling dwellings. 

 No. 17 (actual size) 



The spindle- whorls, broken celts, &c., need no explanation. 



The pottery I make no comm'ent on, it is a subject on which 



I am " deeply, darkly, wonderfully " ignorant, and as experts, 



Flint Knife found at Carn Brea 

 (actual size.) 



