412 DAVIS: ANCIENT FLINT-USERS OF YORKSHIRE. 
probably the sites of ancient manufactories of flint implements, and 
the occurrence in considerable numbers of flint-flakes and cores, 
besides the highly-finished implements, aff'ords some corroboration of 
the opinion. 
Since Mr. Wright's observations were made numerous geologists, 
with antiquarian proclivities, have made collections of flints from the 
same district, and the flat lands of Holderness and the environing 
wolds have furnished very large numbers of examples to their cabinets. 
At the present time, flint objects, even on fields which have been 
recently ploughed, are rarely met with, and it is only occasionally 
that a good example is discovered by an intelligent workman, a few 
of whom are constantly on the alert. 
The flint implements discovered on the wolds of Yorkshire and 
in Holderness, furnished many illustrations to the classical work of 
Dr. John Evans, PMl.S., on the "Ancient Stone Implements, 
Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain." Each of the groups into 
which the implements are divided is represented by Yorkshire 
specimens, and in several instances the whole of the examples on 
which the group is established have been obtained from the wolds. 
It is unncessary to enumerate them, a reference to the work, admir- 
ably illustrated, wdll sho^v the important place occupied by the York- 
shire specimens. 
In addition to the flints found on the surface of the ground 
throughout the wold district of the East Riding, which of themselves 
do not afford a very large amount of insight into the character and 
tlie habits of the people : there are others which have been discovered 
in the mound-graves common in the same district. The explorations 
of Rev. Canon Greenwell, of ^Ir. J. R. Mortimer and others, have shown 
that the mounds may be clearly divided into two periods, in the later 
of which bronze is found ; whilst in the earlier, only stone implements 
have been discovered, and these are similar in form and workmanship 
to those found on the surface. Associated with the flint implements, 
are vessels of earthenware of a rude and simple description. The 
skeletons found in these earlier graves have served to convince Canon 
Greenwell that they belonged to a peaceable and well-disposed people, 
inclined to agricultural pursuits, and living mostly on the results of 
