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texture may mean, unless they would indicate a time of rest from the 
weathering process. If so, some of the worked flints from the raised 
beach may have been imbedded in other formations several times, 
being exposed by turns, when the weathering would go on again. 
THe Neoriraic PEoPLE workING THE CrusteD Fiints.—The sand- 
hills of Whitepark Bay, near Ballintoy, show the remains of an exten- 
sive flint factory. I have obtained a large number of neolithic flint 
implements from this place, some of which were imbedded in darkened 
layers—the remains of the ancient surface layers which existed at the 
time the flint workers lived there. The old surface layers were 
covered up with a great thickness of sand, which was preserved 
until lately by a close sward of grass. When I first visited the place 
about ten or twelve years ago, the covering of sand had been almost 
entirely removed by the wind, and the old floors and sites of dwelling- 
places were again laid bare. Around these hut sites there was the 
appearance of a busy trade having been carried on at one time, in the 
manufacturing of flint implements. The old soil, which was more 
coherent than the sand on which it rested, contained not only manu- 
factured implements, but cores, flakes, and hammer-stones, besides the 
teeth and broken bones of the animals on which the people lived. 
There were also their needles and borers made out of splinters of bone, 
and hammers made from antlers of the red deer, but no trace of metal 
of any kind. Everything was of the ordinary neolithic type. During 
one of my yisits to this place, I observed several flints with a deep 
incrustation like that on the flints from the raised beach, which had 
been chipped and flaked by the neolithic flint-workers. On making a 
search I found, farther down, near the shore, coarsely-chipped blocks 
and cores, together with thick heavy flakes, all deeply incrusted like 
those occurring at Larne. The explanation was clear at a glance. 
The neolithic flmt-workers of the sandhills had found these older 
cores and flakes thickly crusted even in their time, and carried them 
up to beside their huts, and tried to re-work them. I found many 
pieces which must have proved intractable, and been thrown down as 
useless; but I have one curious, knife-like chopper which they have 
manufactured out of a very large flake of the older age. The old 
surface is deeply crusted; but the newer work is almost unchanged. 
Where they have succeeded in getting off passable flakes, we always 
find the thick crust on one side, while the fracture made by these newer 
people is quite fresh. It would appear to me that there was a stoppage 
of the weathering process during all the time the flints were buried, 
and that no change had taken place in either the old or new surfaces. 
I find that the same state of things existed at other places; and I 
have an excellent core of the older age, from Portstewart, which has 
been used as a hammer by the newer people. 
Worxep Frinrs From tHe Boutrper Cray.—When examining the 
boulder clay near Larne, I found, in one section, six feet from the 
surface, and firmly bedded, a flint core haying two flakes struck off, 
leaving depressions where the bulbs of the flakes had come out. The 
