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and scrapers have been obtained; also beads of glass, cbisels 

 brooches, and pins of bronze. The catalogue says of tiiese and 

 other sandhills in Scotland : " These sandy areas have been selected 

 because the blowing away of the sand exposes the articles which 

 have been dropped successively upon the old land surface in the 

 course of ages." At Glenluce alone about 30,000 objects were 

 found, but 1 believe every flake and chip have been collected and 

 included in this large total. 



I visited Glenluce in the summer of 1894 to see the place which 

 had yielded such a large series of objects, and also to compare the 

 sandhills there with those I had explored in^ Ireland. I found the 

 same kind of old surface, but it contained few objects. In one place, 

 where a hearth had existed, I found a bone pin and a flat piece of 

 bone with a hole bored in one end, a hammer-stone with abraided 

 ends, and a flake of quartzite, showing a well-marked bulb of per- 

 cussion. At another site I found a quartzite scraper, dressed round 

 the edge with a series of regular chips. I got numerous small flakes 

 of flint, some small scrapers of that material, and also a great 

 number of pieces of flint in the form of waterwom pebbles, but many 

 of these showed evidence of having been small cores before they 

 acquired their waterwom condition. They had a great likeness to 

 the small cores and waterworn pieces of flint which supplied material 

 for implements to the prehistoric people in many of the Irish sand- 

 hills. I don't know whether the pebbles found at Glenluce can 

 be shown to be fragments of Scotch flint, but if not I should feel 

 inclined to believe they were Antrim flint that in some way had been 

 drifted across to the Scotch coast. These sandhills, like many in 

 Ireland, show a considerable breadth near the shore that is barren of 

 remains of the Stone Age. I found here, as in Ireland, that, in 

 addition to flint, other hard rocks were used for choppers and also 

 for scrapers, as we have seen by the worked example referred to. I 

 brought away some of the objects which had served as choppers, 

 showing the sharp edges chipped and blunted by use, and appearing 

 in every way like the rude cutting implements from those Irish sand- 

 hills, which are situated in districts where flint was scarce or entirely 

 absent. 



Other Discoveeies. 



There are similar sites to those I have described, which have been 

 examined by other archaeologists. Mr. Robert Young and his son, 

 Mr. R. M. Young, m.k.i.a., found, near Bushfoot, county Antrim, an 



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