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On some Flint Implements and rude Ornaments of Prehistoric 

 People in Berwickshire. By James Hardy. 



To an early volume of the Club's " History " (Vol. III., 

 pp. 103—111; 1852) I contributed an account of a group of 

 Cairns and other monumental memorials from the east of 

 Berwickshire ; but at that time the method of referring those 

 remains to a definite period had not been attained, and the 

 rude tokens of early art which may have accompanied 

 them, so analogous to the fossils by which the ages of 

 strata are defined, were either disregarded or overlooked. 

 The present article may be regarded as supplementary to the 

 history of those monuments, by furnishing some of the illus- 

 trations in which it was defective. These, taken with other 

 information, render it probable that a large proportion of the 

 Cairns and encampments of Berwickshire were constructed 

 by people in a very low stage of civilization ; whose weapons 

 and implements were mere chips of flint obtained by barter, 

 or rude adaptations of suitable portions of native rock ; in 

 other words, they belonged to the Stone Age. For the 

 present I shall confine myself to some of these evidences 

 derived from the discovery of flint implements, &c, in the 

 cultivated fields, which were either the known sites of former 

 tumuli, or in which there is every probability of their having 

 once existed. 



The Engravings from the pencil of our Treasurer are 

 lively representations of the more characteristic specimens ; 

 and others, subsequently picked up, of a different type, will, 

 it is to be hoped, be forthcoming at some after stage. The 

 figures are of the natural size ; and if any one will compare 

 them with those in Mr Evans' valuable u Ancient Stone 

 Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain," he 

 will at once acknowledge their genuine attributes. 



I had been picking up flints of the class of " Scrapers " 

 for some years without being aware of their import, other- 

 wise than as being rude or defective gun-flints, when my 

 attention was arrested by the recent occurrence of a flint 

 along with an ancient interment. On the 10th June, 1872, 

 my neighbour, Mr Hood, apprised me that a flag-stone, 

 which promised to be the cover of a Cist, had been torn up 

 in turnip-making, on the top of Hog's Law, a conical gravel 

 eminence, on the farm of Oldcambus Townhead, near the old 



