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ancient barrow near Trevose Head, only in the circumstance 
that those found in the barrow are of less artistic forms than the 
others. 
In order to approximate the relations that the flints of this 
barrow hold to those that have been found at Croyde, and else- 
where in the surface soil, it is desirable that we should give 
attention to the circumstances under which they were found, 
and the materials with which they were in connection. 
In the barrow to which reference has been made at Trevose, 
with the flints were found burnt human bones, enclosed within 
a coarse clay pot. 
Within a few yards of this barrow there existed until very 
recently — some remains of which may still be found along the 
shore — an ancient shell bed, formed by the accumulation of the 
waste thrown away by the ancient people who resided there. In 
making an exploration of this Kitchen-midding, along with the 
shells of the mussel, limpet, and horse whelk, were found large 
quantities of the bones of the roebuck and sheep, stone hammers 
such as were found at Croyde, being rounded pebbles brought 
from the adjoining beach, together with specimens of pottery of 
different qualities, the coarsest of which cannot be distinguished 
from that found in the neighbouring barrow. 
How, if we turn our attention to the discovery at Croyde, we 
find that both Mr. Whitley and Mr. Hall obtained specimens of 
coarse pottery as well as beach stone hammers, both of which 
closely approximate in character and appearance to those that 
were found in the barrow and the kitchen midding, in Constan- 
tine Bay. In either case the pottery assimilates in appearance 
with that of the clay found in close proximity, and is of a 
quality that will bear comparison with the present bricks of 
the country. 
I think that we are justified in arguing that a uniformity of 
material, when combined with a uniformity of design, and appli- 
cation of material, existing under similar geological conditions, 
is suggestive of an approximation in time. Thus the pottery 
found at Baggy Point assimilates nearly to that found both in the 
Kitchen-midding and the barrow at Trevose, so also the character 
of the stone hammers from the Kitchen-midding resemble those 
found* with the flints at Baggy Point; whereas the flint flakes found 
in the grave of the ancient chief are far less capable of adaptation 
as implements than the best formed of those that have been 
found at Croyde, Dosmare pool, the Lizard, and elsewhere, and 
thus I think that we are not stretching the probabilities beyond 
fair reasoning when we suggest that the flint flakes of Devon 
and Cornwall are of the same age as those found in barrows 
containing cremated human bones. 
But it must strike the observer as peculiar, that the flint 
