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ON THE DISCOVERY OF FLINT IMPLEMENTS ON THE HILLS 
BETWEEN TODMOEDEN AND MAESDEN. BY EOBEET LAW 
AND JAMES HOES FALL. 
Incited by the discoveries of Mr. J. W. Davis, Mr. John 
Aitken and others, a series of investigations were commenced by 
the writers in the Spring of 1879, to ascertain the distribution and 
mode of occurrence of Neolithic flints. The work has been carried 
on more or less successfully for three years. The places visited 
are the highest summits and most prominent hills in those parts of 
the Penine Rang-e which lie within a radius of about twelve miles 
of Rochdale. The first locality visited was Dean Clough, a small 
upland stream about a mile north-east of Junction-in-Saddle- 
worth, where one hundred and fifty flints were found; these 
consisted of chippings, flakes, one or two small cores and a beauti- 
fully worked barbed arrow tip. The flints were exposed on 
several small patches of dark stoney loam, the superincumbent 
peat, probably from ten to fourteen inches in thickness, having been 
removed by tire. Subsequent visits to this locality have resulted 
in the discovery of other flints, one of the most interesting being, 
an elegantly fashioned and most delicately chipped leaf -shaped 
arrow head, the point of which was long, sharp, and tapering (pi. 
Ill, fig. 2). It was found on the left bank of a small stream, about 
half a mile to the north of Dean Clough. This arrow head, when 
first seen, was sticking out from beneath peat about seven feet 
thick. 
A little to the north of this stream a patch of bare ground was 
met with, about half an acre in extent, which after a careful search, 
yielded about 20 flint chippings and flakes, one of the latter had 
the appearance of having been ground to a sharp edge. 
Flints appear to be so abundantly scattered on this elevated 
moorland, that in nearly every case where an opportunity was 
offered for an examination of the subsoil, one or more could 
be found. The most striking example was met with on 
March Hill, a conical eminence overlooking the Vale of Marsden. 
