264 Mr. James Hardy on some Flint Implements, &c. 



indicative of any special period ; they may be either British 

 or Saxon. They are significant of the mortal terror of their 

 owners in presence of a deadly enemy or successful invader. 

 The light moveable goods were hurried off, and the domestic 

 coppers were pitched into the nearest quagmire or well-eye. 

 Nothing that might yield any advantage was left. There 

 appears to have been no expectation of ever recovering 

 them again. 



On some Flint Implements of Prehistoric People in Ber- 

 wickshire. No. II. By James Hardy. 



The search after wrought flints in cultivated fields has since 

 my last paper, " History of the Club," Vol. v., p. 410, been 

 prosecuted at every favourable opportunity. They are best 

 discerned when the crop is turnips, in the foldings for 

 sheep, for then the shepherd and his assistants, having to 

 pick up the turnips individually, and flint being an alien 

 as well as sometimes a useful article, they are less likely to 

 escape. The ground is the same as that formerly examined, 

 and the flints obtained at Penmanshiel were entirely on 

 lands enclosed from a state of waste, which makes them less 

 likely to be worn out gun flints or strike-a-lights. One of 

 the most valuable of the new disclosures is the fine flint axe, 

 which was found on what was recently a heathy moor, 

 sprinkled over with small barrows composed of stones, thinly 

 protected with turf. These were levelled and partially 

 excavated to permit of agricultural operations, but the 

 foundations are as yet mostly unexplored and may be still 

 further productive. There are no cists in these barrows, or 

 symptoms of any human remains. I tried several, and they 

 did not differ in structure from a couple of cart-loads of 

 stones piled together on the surface, there being little or no 

 indentation in the soil. Some larger examples have been 

 more elaborately constructed and are deeper rooted ; of a 

 circular form with a hollow centre, after the model of a hut- 

 circle. I am again indebted to Mr. Middlemas for the 



