A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Socketed Cf//j.— Marton, Ribble, Walton-le-Dale, Winmarleigh, Win- 

 wick. 



Weapons. — (a) Knives : Darwen, Haulgh. 



(b) Daggers : Colne Winmarleigh, Win wick. 



(c) Spear-heads : Irlam, Leigh, Piethorne, Walton-le-Dale, 



Winmarleigh. 

 Over Sands. — (a) Palstaves : Flookburgh, Kirkhead. 



(b) Celts : Cartmel, Furness, Gleaston Castle, Kirkhead, 



Little Urswick, Stainton, 



(c) Weapons : Dalton, Kirkhead, Leece, Little Urswick. 



III. INTERMENTS AND BURIAL URNS 



Without considering the whole subject of Bronze and Stone Age burials 

 It would not be possible with the evidence accessible to discriminate between 

 the periods of the early interments in Lancashire of which there is record. 

 Those who have given to this branch of the subject their closest attention 

 find in it great difficulties, and differ among themselves in their interpretation 

 of the results. In general there is a disposition to draw hard and fast lines 

 between different types of interment as representing different and distinct 

 epochs of culture and development, which the evidence of observation does 

 not warrant. The Lancashire burials do not help to solve the great problem, 

 but partake fully of its difficulties. The great area of flint chippings in the 

 south-east of the county, which we have accepted as evidence of a settled 

 stone-working people in a neolithic age, is still without any representative 

 and analagous class of recorded burials. A number of burial mounds, indeed, 

 with interments apparently all by cremation, are found about these hills, but 

 the urns found in these, the stone circles, and other features, are for the most 

 part of the type usually assigned to the Bronze Age, and indeed here and there 

 a small pin or other object of bronze has confirmed the date. But not even 

 small pieces of metal are found upon these ' neolithic floors.' Looking at the 

 problem of the settlements and culture-phases of early man in Lancashire 

 with due regard to the physical features of the county, the possibility must be 

 admitted of an even broader overlap of Bronze and Stone Age than is usually 

 conceded. The aboriginal workers of stone may have still retained their 

 homes upon the eastern hills, while elsewhere, nearer the coast or upon the 

 river valleys, bronze-using man gradually made his way ; possibly the use 

 of bronze might find its way without ethnical movement. However that 

 may be, unfortunately we can only admit the insufficiency of local evidence. 

 Hence in regard to these interments, those which bear trace only of stone 

 implements are distinguished from those showing bronze, as belonging 

 possibly but not necessarily to an earlier phase of culture development and ar. 

 antecedent population. 



I. Interments with Associated Stone Deposits 



On Hades Hill, near Rochdale, in a depression which separates that hill 

 from Rough Hill, 1,380 ft. above sea level, an approximately round, but 

 deformed, barrow has been explored. Its dimensions give 52 ft. north to 



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