210 XOTKS 0\ A FIND OF PRE-HISTORIC IMPLEMENTS, 



XII. — Notes on a Find of Pre-historic Implements in Allendale, 

 with Notices of similar Finds in the surrounding District. By 

 the Rev. W. HowcniN, F.G.S. 



The County of Nortliumberland, if not so ricli in objects of pre- 

 historic archaeology as some of the southern counties of England, 

 has, nevertheless, yielded no inconsiderable proportion of objects 

 in this field of study. Pre-historic camps and tumuli are com- 

 mon within the limits of our district, as any good map will show ; 

 and through the industrious researches of the Rev. Canon Green- 

 well, some of these, when opened, have yielded a few small im- 

 plements of flint ; whilst an occasional hatchet, or some such 

 implement made of stone, has now and again been turned up 

 by the plough, or exposed by the draining operations on the 

 land. 



We have now to record, however, in addition to the above, a 

 true surface find of a very rich and interesting character, and 

 under such circumstances as may lead, by its suggestiveness. to 

 a more extended search among the fells of our northern district, 

 which cannot fail to reward the patient worker with encouraging 

 results. 



The locality, where the stone implements in question have 

 been secured, lies in the south-western portion of Nortliumber- 

 land, on the top of a ridge of fell-land lying between the East 

 and West Allen, at a height, as marked on the Ordnance Survey 

 Map, of fifteen hundred and fifty-four feet, and at a distance of 

 about two-and-a-half miles south-west of Allendale Town. The 

 site is well-marked by two chimneys connected with the smelt- 

 mill of W. B. Beaumont, Esq., situated in the valley near the 

 town, from whence the chimneys arc carried up the hill-side 

 until they terminate in short vertical vents near the top of the 

 fell. These chimneys convey the fumes arising from the lead 

 smelting process to a liigh altitude, and as they have to pass 

 through several miles of tortuous passages, the lead that has 

 gone off in sublimation falls in large quantities as the smoke 

 ascends; and thus, by this means, what would be highly dele- 

 terious if dissipated in the atmosphere, is retained and turned to 



