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LAW AND HOESFALL : FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 
At this place a quartzite pebble was dug up, about two and a 
half inches in length, and an inch in breadth, which showed at each 
end distinct signs of having been used as a hammerstone. It was 
found in the grey-sand, beneath the thickest part of undisturbed 
peat. 
Another quartzite pebble has lately been found on the moor, 
about half a mile south-west of March Hill, by Dr. March, of 
Rochdale, it is two and five-eights of an inch in length, and one and a 
half an inch in width, is thin and oval in form and has been bored 
through the centre, the operation having commenced from both 
sides of the pebble. It would appear from the position in which 
this bored pebble was found, that it was at one time under peat 
about three feet in thickness. (PI. Ill, fig. 1). 
About tAvo miles east of March Hill, the most striking and 
prominent feature in the neig'hbourhood is Pule Hill. On its 
southern extremity, which is the most elevated part, about a dozen 
flint flakes were discovered ; one of the most remarkable is about 
two inches in length and thi'ee eights of an inch in breadth ; it is 
beautifully fashioned and ma}^ have been used as a knife. 
Near the foot of the hill a small patch of subsoil was examined 
and yielded upwards of two hundred fragments of flint and chert. 
They consisted of flakes, chips and cores, one of the former 
showed signs of having been delicately chipped along one side, in 
order to form a serrated cutting edge. It is two and a quarter 
inches in length, and one inch in its broadest part. (PI. Ill, fig. 2). 
At this place chert was more abundant than flint. Still further 
eastwards a few flints were obtained from Butter Hill and Waster 
Knab, they were all flakes, and only one showed distinct traces of 
secondary chipping. 
While examining this part of the Penine Range, a sharp look- 
out was also kept for stones foreign to the district, which might 
indicate the presence of glacial debris, but not a fragment was met 
with. 
Attention was next directed to an elevated and prominent ridge 
