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are those chipped on two edges and on both sides of the 
implement, while the third edge is either chipjied most 
minutely or not at all. Many of these have one straight edge, 
one convex edge, and one concave edge, the two latter forming 
a curved point. It has been suggested that some of these are 
barbed arrowheads in course of construction, but the fact of 
one side being concave and the other convex in nearly all 
cases seems sufficient to dispose of this theory. Considered 
as harpoon-barbs there would be reason for this chipping. 
The unchipped edge or even a thin chipped edge would be 
fixed in the side of the harpoon-shaft, the convex edge would 
be towards the point and the concave towards the base, thus 
making a barb, which in some cases has received specially 
detailed treatment. 
IX. 
SOME BRECKLAND CHARACTERISTICS. 
By W. G. Clarke. 
Read 25 tli February, 1908. 
Though much of south-west Norfolk and north-west Suffolk 
consists of open country with sandy soil, there are certain 
features peculiar to a district frequently termed “ Breckland.” 
because of the number of “ brecks ” within its borders. 
On the west, beyond Methwold, Feltwell, Hockwold and 
Lakenheath, it is bounded by the fens ; on the north by the 
river Wissey ; on the south by the river Lark : and on the 
east by lines drawn from Watton and Bury to Bio’ Norton. 
This area contains about 225 square miles, ji Norfolk and 
25 Suffolk parishes, or one to about 4 square miles. This is 
chiefly because of the parishes near the border streams, and 
