254 The Grave-mounds of Derbyshire, and their Contents. 



THE GRAVE-MOUNDS OF DERBYSHIRE, AND 

 THEIR CONTENTS. 



BY LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, E.S.A., ETC., ETC. 



(With a Plate.) 



(Continued from page 189.) 



The flint implements found in the Derbyshire grave-mounds 

 are extremely varied in form, and many of them of the most 

 exquisite workmanship — such indeed as would completely 

 baffle the skill, great though that skill undoubtedly is, of 

 " Flint Jack " to copy. The arrangement, classification, and 

 nomenclature of flints is at present so uncertain, and so mixed 

 up with absurd theories, that it is difficult to know how to 

 place them in a common sense manner. All I shall attempt to 

 do in this present paper — which is intended to describe, gene- 

 rally, the relics to be found in the barrows of Derbyshire, and 

 not to be a disquisition on flints alone — will be to give examples 

 of some of the more usual forms which have from time to time 

 been found, so as to facilitate comparisons with those of other 



counties and countries. Of ar- 

 ivw&nd spear-heads and" dagger- 

 blades " almost every known 

 form have, at one time or other, 

 been exhumed in Derbyshire. 

 The engravings here given will 

 prett}^ well show the most gene- 

 ral and best developed shapes. 

 The first represents threebarbed 

 arrow-heads, and a dagger- 

 blade, (6 inches long) from 

 Green-Low. The arrow-heads 

 are of the most general types of 

 the barbed variet} 1 , but they are 

 not unfrequently found of a 

 longer, and consequently more 

 taper, form. The dagger-blade 

 is of what is usually called the 

 " leaf-shaped " type, and is the 

 prototype of the bronze dagger 

 of a later period. Another, and 

 of perhaps much finer form, is 

 shown on the accompanying 

 plate, Fig. 1. It was found at 

 v^-. Arbor-Low in June 1805, and is 



5£ inches in length and nearly 

 2 \ inches in width in the centre. In its thickest part it is scarcely 



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