74 MR - C. T. TRECHMANN ON 



The next site I wish to record is in Weardale, at a greater 

 elevation than the last. It is situated at the chimney of 

 Rookhope Smelting Mill on Redburn Common at an elevation 

 of 1,829 feet O.D. The mill is situated on the roadside by 

 Rookhope Burn, the flues being carried in a north-westerly 

 direction a distance of nearly two miles to the fell top, the 

 outlet being situated just on the escarpment of the millstone 

 grit. 



A tremendous area of ground has been denuded by the 

 action of the fumes, and in consequence I hoped to find a 

 quantity of implements, but in this was disappointed ; after 

 long search I picked up, as I anticipated, an arrowhead 

 (Plate III., fig. 6) lying about half-a-mile from the chimney on 

 the bare ground, in addition to a core of grey flint and five or 

 six flakes of flint, chert, and quartz. 



The spot is extremely desolate and very exposed, and no 

 doubt seldom visited except by the workmen cleaning down 

 the flues (the mill was still working in 1905). The desolation 

 of the site and absence of water must have prevented its 

 occupation by Neolithic man, and the implements picked up 

 have been merely dropped by accident. 



The arrowhead is a stemmed and double-barbed example 

 with the tip of both barbs broken off. It is formed out of 

 grey flint streaked with light grey and bleached and weathered 

 to a bluish surface. 



Some other sites which I have traced on the fells call for 

 no special attention at present, as I have not yet collected 

 sufficient of the material or anything sufficiently remarkable 

 to justify my recording them. 



A large tract of bare ground surrounding a smelting mill 

 chimney which I examined near Reeth Moor in Arkengarth- 

 dale was curiously and to my surprise totally devoid of flakes, 

 although it was situated on the edge of the Yoredale escarp- 

 ment with exposures of chert. 



