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Of Dr Evans' second section of polished celts, those having 

 the sides flattened, an example — his Fig. 58, p. 105 — is given from 

 Canon Greenwell's collection, as found at Burradon. It is 

 repeated from an electro of half-size at our Fig. 20. " It is of 

 porphyritic stone, and has the angles of the flat sides slightly 

 rounded. Another in the same collection, 4 inches long, from 

 Doddington, in the same 

 county, is of similar character. 

 Celts of much the same charac- 

 ter and size have been found 

 in the Shetland Isles, one of 

 which, 5^ inches long, from 

 West Burrafirth, is in the Brit- 

 ish Museum." (Stone and Flint 

 Implements, pp. 104-5.) 



In the end of May 1886, in 

 driving from below Sharperton, 

 across behind Farnham, and 

 skirting Charity Hall, with 

 Sharperton Edge in view on the 

 left, and on by Plainfield, and 

 across the grounds of Low Trew- 

 itt to Foxton Burn, and then 

 ascending the bank between the 

 Burradon farms to Burradon 

 village, we crossed the Eoman 

 Way. No intelligence of any 

 antiquities having been recently seen was 

 latest revelation was of a horrible and mysterious character, and 

 was still well remembered. Some j r ears since a skull was got 

 below Burradon Bank, when a labourer was draining and cut- 

 ting through a mass of peat. It was a fresh cranium of a young 

 man, with perfect teeth, of which our informant preserved two. 

 It was interred again. Some said it was the head of a pedlar 

 who was supposed to have been murdered in a lodging-house at 

 Burradon, that harboured tramps and other " gangrel bodies," 

 of a description lower than packman. Others say it belonged to 

 a tailor, Jacob Paxton, who lodged in the village with a family 

 of no great repute, who finally disappeared without saying good- 

 bye to their neighbours ; but this tailor was afterwards seen in 

 London, and was supposed to have decamped to avoid his 

 creditors. 



Fig. 20. 

 procurable. The 



