Mr James Hardy on some Flint Implements, fyc. 411 



post road, and adjacent to my own residence. The flag was 

 a greywacke slate, which had been obtained from a slate 

 quarry at no great distance, where the stone rises in large 

 slabs, with little effort ; and close beside a British " camp," 

 whence the body here entombed may have been transported. 

 It was too small to have covered a grave, and we — for we 

 made the excavation ourselves — had not gone far, till it was 

 obvious that it had been previously broken, and the grave 

 disturbed ; and that this was probably the same Cist that 

 had been found on the hill about thirty years ago, when it 

 was first cultivated. Some of the stones only forming the 

 sides remained ; being rolled greywacke boulders, and two 

 sandstones, grey and white, which had been brought from 

 the sea-side, distant about a mile. Passing through the 

 gravel, we came upon a tenacious brown clay beneath it, 

 and found embedded in it several portions of a human leg. 

 The excavation was shallow, not three feet below the surface ; 

 but I was told that the hill was decreasing in height, repeated 

 ploughings and harrowings having caused the soil to slide to 

 a lower position. It could not be ascertained whether the 

 legs were bent or laid straight out ; but the direction was 

 from north to south, and the head had been laid to the north. 

 The bones were rather decayed and crumbly ; the soil being 

 so damp as to saturate them with moisture. The fibula was 

 a mere fragment ; but the tibia was nearly perfect, and was 

 about fifteen inches long. What remained of the femur, was 

 about the same length, but originally it would be of longer 

 proportion. The femur was considerably curved. The other 

 bones had probably been scattered at the previous disinter- 

 ment. In returning the clay, the broken-off point of a 

 leaf-shaped flint arrow-head was detected ; and this was the 

 only reward we had. See Plate I., Fig. 1. It appears to 

 have been broken from an early period, as the crack is 

 glazed over with a white enamel, which covers the whole 

 flint. 



Previous to being in culture, this hill-top was covered with 

 grass. There was no cairn. The name occurs in a Colding- 

 ham Charter, and is six or seven hundred years old. We 

 don't know who " Hog," or " Ogge," as it is in the Record, 

 was ; but he may have been contemporary with " Arkile," 

 or "Bertolui" (Bartholomew?), and "Emund" — Saxons 

 who gave names to their early possessions in the neighbour- 



