LAW AND HOESFALL ; FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 71 
This hill is completely isolated from the sm-rounding moors, and 
althoug^h of comparatively small dimensions more than two thou- 
sand flints were found on a few small patches of bare ground, on 
its southern side. The flints varied in size from chippings not 
larger than a pin's head to flakes two inches long. Several small 
flint cores and one leaf -shaped arrow tip with a broken point were 
also picked up. Indeed the number of small chips and flakes was so 
great, as to lead to the conclusion, that flint implements were 
manufactured there during " pre-historic times." It may be wor- 
thy of note, that while flints occurred in great abundance on the 
south side of the hill ; the side facing the north, although there 
was much bare ground, only yielded ten pieces. 
After every flint that could be seen on this hill had been 
picked up in the summer of 1880, we found on revisiting the place 
the following year, that another crop, as it were, had sprung up, 
for the bare ground on the south side of the hill was again strewn 
with flints. This occurrence might, at first, have thrown a little 
doubt on their antiquity, had we not removed a thin layer of soil, 
and found flints at a still lower level, and in this way convinced 
ourselves that they must have been laid bare by the denuding action 
of atmospheric agencies. Several small pieces of red ruddle (per- 
oxide of iron) were found, which may have been used by the 
ancient men by whom the flints were worked. 
After carefully examining the naturally bared surface, we 
dug at several places and exposed the follo-wing section : — 
1. Peat, from ten to sixteen inches thick. 
2. Dark Peaty-clay, from two to six inches thick. 
3. Dark-grey Sand, with angular pieces of sandstone, all local, six inches 
thick. Flints occtirred abunantly in this layer. 
4. Red Ochreous sand, about tAvelve inches thick, resting on Yorodale shale. 
It will be seen by the above section, that the true position of 
the flints was the dark-grey sand. No. 3, in which they occurred at 
all levels ; it yielded from twelve to a hundred and twenty flints 
per square yard. Although the other layers were examined with 
equal care, not a particle of flint was found. 
