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10, 11. Plate iv., figs. 8 and 9. These curiously shaped 

 scrapers have been formed of small nodules of flint convex in the 

 centre, from which they have been chipped away all round. They 

 are of the horse-shoe type, and are of a pale grey flint. They are 

 allied to the minute disk-shaped scraper, figured "Hist. Ber, 

 Nat. Club," Yol. vi., plate i., fig. 6, which I conjectured might 

 have been employed in polishing bone-pins. Found in the same 

 field as the above, on very dry ground, perhaps the site of an 

 old hut-circle. 



12. Plate iv., fig. 3. Perhaps a sort of boring tool, or hollow 

 scraper. See Evans, fig. 226, 229. The edges have been chipped 

 all round, and then blunted by constant wear. It is thin and 

 slightly bent, and brownish grey coloured. It would polish deli- 

 cate objects rubbed against it. Found near Crow's Cairn, Pen- 

 manshiel, 1874, where the disk-shaped scraper was picked up, 



IV. Knives. 



13. Plate ii., fig. 1. This is the remains of a semicircular 

 knife, which, unfortunately, the finder destroyed, not being 

 aware of what it was. It has been formed of a peculiar grey 

 marble-like flint ; indeed it is wonderful what variety exists in 

 the flints thus picked up, when we consider what a rare com- 

 modity flint must have been in a wild age, among people so 

 remote from any native supplies. This implement has been 

 modelled at one or two blows, as smoothly as if it had been cut. 

 On ground once occupied by cairns, next Harelawside march. 



14. Plate ii., fig. 3. This has been an implement similar to 

 the last. It is of a sandy grey flint. In the field with Nos. 8, 

 9, 10, and 11, January, 1874. 



15. 16. Plate iii., figs. 6, 7. These are little better than 

 splinters to which a cutting edge has been imparted by a few 

 secondary chippings. They were found deep among a rusty soil 

 on the farm of Oldcambus Townhead, near the site of a British 

 camp above Akieside wood. It was in one of the tombs con- 

 nected with this camp that the urn was found, described in 

 the Club's " Hist.," Yol. iii., p. 105. They are of whitish grey 

 flint, stained with the yellow rusty soil. 



17. Curved flint knife, Plate ii., fig. 2. This is a very fine 

 example. The flat face is entirely smooth, whiie the workman- 

 ship occurs on the convex surface. It would form an efficient 

 skinning knife. The blunt end is chipped as if for holding by. 

 It is a mixture of pale grey and dark flint. Found on newly 

 taken in soil at " Short Birks," accompanying fragments of 

 bones. Knowing there were some tumuli there, I examined, 

 and was rewarded with this implement, March 14, 1872. This 

 field also furnished the straight knife, No. 8 of last report. 



18. Straight flint knife, Plate iv., fig. 1. It is a very pretty 



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