252 G. Finlay on Prehistoric Archeology in Greece. 
Gell, in a Itinerary of Greece, page 166, mentions that similar 
fragmen of flint are found at the oxlory 600s, where was the 
tomb of "ons and he adds “perhaps a confirmation of the 
discomfiture of the barbarians in the Odos schiste.” These frag- 
ments of obsidian, wherever they are found in Greece, are now 
admitted to be relics of prehistoric times, and a careful exami- 
nation of the tumulus of Marathon convinced the writer of 
these pages, as early as the year 1835, that they were scattered 
about in the soil in their actual state when it was heaped up to 
form the tumulus over the bodies of the Athenians who were 
slain in the battle. oe material is obsidian from the island of 
Melos. 
No siadiciose = the existence of a stone period appear 
to have reached the inhabitants of Greece in historic times, 
though the mythical gtd of the remains ss as ae and 
Lykosura ascend almost to the prehistoric a As I have 
already mentioned, my attention was first led. to the certainty 
that a numerous race of people in Greece used stone imple- 
ments by the fragments of obsidian picked up on the Sane 
at Marathon. I subsequently observed that similar fragmen 
of obsidian are found in various parts of the cE a a in 
ows of the oe I und myself similar chips of 
obsidian over all a, and in many parts of Greece, and 
seve he ee of the Archipelago, where no native 
attention was directed to the subject. I have picked up these 
so-called Persian arrow-heads even in the now barren island of 
ydra. My first notice on the subject was published in the 
eh <i 3 In that year, while examining the topography of 
discovered the extensive deposit of fossil bones at 
Pikermi, of which there is a valuable collection in the Museum 
also at Liven near Aphidna, at Kakosialesi near T , an 
at Aghios Kosmas on the Attic coast. When my memoir on 
the battle of Marathon, which was read to the al Society 
of Literature in January, 1838, was printed, I added a note 
“concerning the pieces of flint called Persian arrow-heads 
foun ~ in the tumulus at Marathon.” (Transactions of the 
