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blue chipped flints occur on and close to the barrows. They have been 

 protected by the black and other soils of the barrow, and thus the 

 process of decay has been retarded. Further away from the barrows 

 chipped flints are equally numerous, but those on the chalky soil are 

 almost always white. Some of them, in style and in sharpness, agree 

 perfectly with the blue flints from the barrows, and I believe them to 

 be of the same age. Thus we have, so far, unchanged black or grey 

 flints, which are possibly Romano-British, manifestly earlier blue 



. specimens, which may be of the Bronze Age, together with certain 

 white chipped flints. But on the careful examination of a large num- 

 ber of flints from the district, it is evident that there are some white 

 specimens of greater age than those already noticed. They are of 

 coarser workmanship, and have a white patina of different appearance 

 and deeper decay. They may be of the Neolithic age proper, and it is 

 likely that there is yet another period coming between this and the 

 later Bronze Age flints already mentioned,represented by what may be 

 called medium white flints, referable to the early Bronze Age. It must 

 be noted that there are white rechippings on older white chipped sur- 

 faces. On Windmill Hill a large quantity of broken-up polished celts 

 have been found. I have found many dozens of such pieces, but never 



■ a whole one. They are intentionally broken and rechipped, and have 

 been sometimes put to other than their original purposes. My theory 

 is that they are the weapons of the people either of the Neolithic Age 

 proper, or of the early Bronze Age, and that they were broken up by 

 an invading Bronze Age tribe who themselves possessed bronze celts 

 and took delight in chipping to pieces the weapons of their enemies. " 

 He regards the barbed arrowheads of Windmill Hill as of the Bronze 

 Age. " Spear heads are in my experience very rare." 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 77, March, 1912. 



Wiltshire Protestation Returns, 1641 — 2 ; a Calendar of Feet of Fines 

 for Wiltshire ; Quaker Burials in Wiltshire ; Marriage Bonds of the 

 Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum ; Steeple Ashton 

 Churchwardens' Accounts are continued from the last number. Mr. 

 R. Boucher gives a series of notes on " Kent of Boscombe " ; A. St. 

 J. S. Maskelyne has a note on the Family of South ; and Mr. Ed. 

 Kite writes on " Some Documents relating to the Church of the 

 B.V. Mary, Devizes, and its re-founder, A.D. 1410 — 1458," illustrated 

 by an admirable photograph of the statue of the Virgin and Child 

 above the (east wall of the nave at St. Mary's, Devizes, and cuts of 

 the Seals of William Coventry, William Smith, and the Common 

 Seal of the Church of the B.V. Mary at Devizes. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries No. 78. June, 1912 



" Notes on the Family of Jason, of Broad Somerford," by the Rev. F. 

 H. Manley ; " Sherston Manor Rolls," by the Rev. W. Symonds ; 

 "Wiltshire Protestation Returns of 1641—2," by E. A. Fry; 

 "Quaker Burials"; "Wiltshire W^ills proved in the Prerogative 

 Court of Chancery 1584—1604 " ; " Steeple Ashton Churchwardens' 



