7° TLDESWELL AND TIDESLOW. 



there, the contents ought to have belonged to that period; 

 but, as already proved, they belonged to the Neolithic instead, 

 between which remote prehistoric period and that of the his- 

 toric Anglo-Saxon, not only many centuries but the whole 

 of the Bronze Age intervened. Moreover, during the latter 

 period it was very rare for more than one body to be -interred 

 in the same grave or mound. 



I expressed my doubts whether in the long list of lows 

 recorded in Mr. Bateman's Ten Years' Diggings (1861), 

 289-297, is contained "a single example of the name of a 

 prehistoric individual " ; to which Mr. Addy replied by citing a 

 long array of terms and of personal names of Old Norse or 

 of Anglo-Saxon origin, contained in the prefixes to many lows ; 

 but the whole of them belonged to historic times. In a sub- 

 sequent communication he added a number of others, 

 notwithstanding that the following remarks of mine had already 

 appeared : " The whole tenour of his remarks is beside the 

 question at issue, as all his examples are of the historic as 

 distinguished from the ' prehistoric ' period, to which latter 

 alone, as I distinctly stated, my remarks applied ; ' (10th j., 53, 

 91, 191, 230). 



I scarcely think I could have expressed my opinion in plainer 

 terms. Nevertheless, an entire absence of any reference to the 

 prehistoric age characterizes the whole of Mr. Addy's articles. 

 After a careful consideration of his remarks, the only conclu- 

 sion as to his meaning at which I can arrive is, that, as the 

 names of many of the barrows in Derbyshire are of Old Norse 

 or of Anglo-Saxon origin, the barrows also must be assigned 

 to one or other of those periods. Some of them undoubtedly 

 are, of which two examples are at Monyash and Brushfield. 

 Others exist at Moot Low, Hurdlow, Gaily Low, White Low, 

 etc. ; but the greater number of those in the Peak district 

 were raised in Neolithic times. Even those of the Bronze 

 Age are comparatively rare in the same district; and 

 Mr. Bateman had been busily engaged in barrow-opening 

 for two years before he was successful in discovering and 



