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of remote antiquity ; some of them may have been broken 

 gun-flints, or used in striking fire with steel, but others 

 appear to be authentic ; and it may be worth while calling 

 attention to this class of articles mixed up with the cultivated 

 soil, where they are easily detected from there being no native 

 flints to embarass the search, in order that we may learn 

 something of their distribution, their origin, or their age. 

 It is to be remarked that the leaf-shaped flints appear to 

 denote greater barbarism than the barbed arrow, or " elf- 

 shot," of which there are beautiful Berwickshire examples 

 also ; although I have not been fortunate enough as yet to 

 meet with any. 



The following catalogue comprises the particulars of the 

 specimens shown to the Club : — 



I. Arrow Heads, 



1. Point of leaf-shaped flint arrow-head from British grave on 

 Hog's-law, Oldcambus, June, 1872. Plate I., Fig. I. 



2. Small leaf-shaped flint arrow-head, wrought on the margin 

 aU round ; field, Oldcambus, June 21, 1872. Fig. 2. 



3. Chisel-ended form of flint arrow-head, found in a field at 

 Oldcambus, May 30, 1864, See Evans, Figs. 231 and 342. This 

 is a rare type. Mr Greenwell has found it in France ; and only 

 a few examples have occurred in this country. The smaller end 

 was inserted in the notch of a stick. The Egyptian arrow-head 

 was of this form. Fig. 3 (reversed). 



II. Scrapers. 



4. Horse-shoe shaped flint-scraper; field, Oldcambus, July, 

 1872. A portion broken off. Fig. 4. 



5. Ear-shaped flint-scraper ; field, Oldcambus, June 13, 1872. 

 Fig. 5. 



6. Disc or lens-shaped flint-scraper. Found at Crow's Cairn, 

 an ancient stone barrow of great size, Penmaushiel, June 13, 1863. 

 See " Hist. Ber. Nat. Club," Vol. III., p. 105. This is a rare 

 type which Mr Greenwell has only found in the south of England. 

 One similar to it appears to be figured in Jewitt's " Grave- 

 Mounds," &c, p. 122, Fig. 168. It is so small as to resemble a 

 stud, but may have been employed in polishing bone-pins. Fig. 6. 



III. Knives. 



7. Flint-knife, of dark grey flint, carefully wrought. Mr Green- 

 well considers this to be a good example. Oldcambus, June 12, 

 1872. Fig. 7. 



8. Flint-knife, of grey flint, carefully wrought. From a field 



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