41 £ Mr James Hardy on some Hint Implements, Sfc. 



hood ; which, however, have not been so fortunate to adheie 

 to them so long as this. He was certainly not the personage 

 whose pre-existence has now for the first time been disclosed ; 

 however old the belief, that the chieftains who were buried 

 on heights had their names attached to them for an enduring 

 memorial. This hill itself is of the tumulus form. Gravel 

 knolls, in many instances, in this district have been selected 

 as prehistoric sepulchres ; and I am not aware that in these 

 cases there existed any artificial barrow. 



As the field in my occupation, next to this, was also pre- 

 paring for turnips, and in a. state favourable for observation, 

 I was induced to make a search for flints : and two days 

 afterwards I picked up the fine knife, Fig. 7, which is of a 

 dark-coloured flint, and was accompanied by a similar 

 coloured flake ; and afterwards near the same spot, the lancet- 

 shaped knife, Fig. 9. Afterwards in autumn, two leaf- 

 shaped arrow-heads of grey flint were found close together, 

 at a short distance from the former. They were carefully 

 wrought all round the margin, but one of them was defective 

 and blunted at the point. In another part of the field I 

 found, on the 13th June, the carefully wrought ear-shaped 

 " scraper," Fig. 5 ; and afterwards in July, the horse-shoe- 

 shaped " scraper," Fig. 4, which has been fractured at the 

 one side. The working is mostly on the side, half shewn 

 in the engraving. Neither of these could have been " strike- 

 a-lights," as I find on trial that this process fritters away 

 the edge, which in the latter of these is keen and fresh as it 

 came from the maker's hands. Native settlements appear 

 to have once existed in this field, as I have got a very un- 

 couth hollowed out sandstone from it, in which some British 

 matron or slave may have decorticated " bear " or t( bigg " ; 

 and also one of those puzzling stone-bullets, on which I wrote 

 one of my early essays for the Club, as being connected with 

 a game ("Hist of Club," Vol. II., pp. 51-68), but which in 

 this and other instances, owing to the smallness of the ball, 

 may have been a sling-stone. Like most of the others, it is 

 of the rock native to the locality — greywacke. 



Besides these, I have at various times picked up elsewhere, 

 several other flints which bear traces of having been dressed 

 by human agency ; and now submit them to the Club's in- 

 spection, along with some other objects of rude art belonging 

 to the same early period. I do not affirm that the whole are 



