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length, plainly fractured on the one side and bevelled on the 

 other. The second is about two and a quarter inches in length, 

 straight, and chipped with even facets on either side of the cut- 

 ting edge, which has been left by this mode of fracture as a 

 central ridge. In both examples the teeth are very fine and nu- 

 merous. 



6. Cores and Chipping 8. "We may count I think about twenty 

 cores of flint as ha\'ing been picked up on the spot in question ; 

 but they are mostly small, and have been apparently thrown 

 away because of no further service in implement manufacture. 



The flint that has been brought into requisition for the con- 

 struction of the foregoing ai'ticles is of vaiious colours and qua- 

 lity. The chalky matter left in the indentations of a few would 

 imply that they have been made fi*om the freshly (juarried no- 

 dule : whilst, in other instances, the outer surface that has been 

 preserved, shows that the implements have been manufactured 

 from rolled pebbles, such as can be picked up in great abundance 

 on the sea beach where the Cretaceous rocks occur. 



The small chippings of flint, knocked off in the shaping of the 

 various tools of these "old stone-folk," are, as might be ex- 

 pected, the most numerous of all the objects that indicate their 

 residence in our district. Nearly a thousand of these chippings 

 have been counted from Allendale alone, — a fact which, of itself, 

 is sufficient to prove that many implements were manufactured 

 on the spot, as also that the time over which their occupation of 

 the fell-top in question extended, was a long one. It is interest- 

 ing to note, further, that these flint chips usually occur together 

 in considerable numbers, scattered around some central point, so 

 that where one is picked up, there is tlie strongest probability 

 that others will be fouud closely associated with it — as though u 

 stone-age warrior or huntsman had sat down at the spot, to re- 

 plenish liis resources in the instruments of war or the chase. 



The situation where this most interesting Find has occurred is 

 a very eligible one for an encampment. The ground is in tho 

 form of two undulating knolls, of moderate elevation, which 

 nestle under tlie east side of the crest, and are thus protected 

 from tho heavy winds which blow in this district from tho west. 



