found at Aldington, Worcestershire. 



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distant localities, and bringing that comparison to bear on the 

 illustration of their peculiar or common uses, and it may also serve 



I to encourage archaeologists to hope that by continued close and 

 faithful observation of ancient interments, and articles of use and 



; ornament associated with them, a more accurate knowledge may 

 be eventually obtained even of the customs, extent of diffusion, and 

 epochs of existence of the different races, which have in pre-historic 

 ages been successively inhabitants of our island. 



DESCRIPTION of PLATES VI. and VII. 



Plate vi. Green-slate wrist-guard (actual size), found associated with two 

 quern stones at Aldington, Worcestershire, a. Concave surface, b. convex 

 surface, c. tranverse section, (p. 109.) 



Plate vii., fig. 1. Slate plate found in a tumulus in the island of Skye. It 

 is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, at Edinburgh, 

 No. 267, b, in their catalogue, a. Convex surface, b. concave surface, c. 

 transverse section, (p. 112.) 



Fig. 2. Plate of chlorite slate, found in a barrow on Roundway Hill, by 

 Mr. Cunnington of Devizes, vide Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, vol. iii., 

 p. 186. Actual size 4^ in. x l-^ 



Fig. 3. Plate of blue slate, found bv the late Mr. Cunnington of Heytesbury, 

 at Sutton Veney, vide Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, vol. i., p. 103, where it is 

 described as a hreast-plate. It is engraved in plate xii. of that work. 



