216 NOTES ON A FIND OF ritE-lIISTOKlC liirLEMENTS, 



interesting object in the collection looks like an intermediate 

 example between the triangular and leaf-shaped forms. It is 

 certainly a very peculiar and uncommon shape, and is much more 

 semi- circular in its basal outline than the intermediate form 

 figured by Mr. Evans p. 352. The point has been unfortunately 

 broken, but otherwise it is a very symmetrical specimen. The 

 triangular arrow-head exhibited in another tray may be mentioned 

 in this place, although it was not got in Allendale, but found on 

 the Fell top at Ramshaw, Upper Derwent, on bared surface, close 

 to the smelt works chimney of the Derwent Lead Mining Com- 

 pany. It has been constructed of hard shale, now weathered 

 quite white; rather thin, and showing many facets left from 

 working it into shape. 



About fifty arrow-heads are known to have been found aud 

 carried oif from this one spot in Allendale up to the present 

 time. Of these eight are leaf-shaped, thirty-eight double-barbed, 

 one single-barbed, one triangular, and a few carried out of the 

 distiict the features of which are unknown. Althougli the writer 

 has used every diligence in attempting to secure a full record of 

 all objects obtained at this spot, there are undoubtedly others, 

 scattered through the district, of which no account has been 

 taken. 



It has been the arrow-tips especially that have excited the 

 curiosity of the rustic population, and it is to be feared that, un- 

 less those that are now held somewhat tenaciously by the country 

 people are placed in safe keeping, ere long the greater portion of 

 this valuable find will be scattered or lost. 



3. Flakes, These arc very numerous, averaging from an inch 

 to two inches in length. In shape they answer to the sub-divi- 

 sions— "external," "ridged," "flat," and "polygonal." They 

 nearly all carry the bulb of percussion, or conchoidal fracture, on 

 the flat or inner face, many show secondary chippings, and a few 

 arc finished off with great care ; whilst there are others, which 

 appear to have been simply struck off the cores with a few dex- 

 terous blows, and tlicn used without any further manipulation. 

 About one hundred and twenty of these flint knives and splinters, 



