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TARDENOISIAN SITES ON OXENHOPE MOOR. 
T. DEANS. 
In a general survey of the Mesolithic sites of the North of 
England, Dr. A. Raistrick 1 refers to sites on Oxenhope Moor 
recently excavated by the writer. The present paper is 
intended as a detailed account of these sites, while for their 
relation to the other Pennine sites reference should be made 
to Dr. Raistrick’s paper. 
The two sites occur on the prominent “ edge ” which 
runs from Nab Hill, 1473 ft. O.D., eastwards for nearly a mile 
to Hambleton Top, 1,375 ft. O.D., on Thornton Moor, and 
which forms the northern edge of the high moorland plateau 
of the Aire-Calder watershed. Little is known of the dis- 
tribution of flints on these moors on account of the thick peat 
which covers the rock surface on which they occur. A general 
examination of all exposures, however, seems to point to a 
concentration around the edge of the moor, rather than on 
the interior of the plateau. Their distribution, working from 
the Airedale edge northwards and returning on the Calderdale 
edge, is as follows : — 
1. Odd Ends in the peat pits N. of Ogden Kirk, at 1,300 ft. 
O.D. 
2. Odd Ends along the moor edge above Thornton Moor 
Reservoir. 
3. A workshop site on Hambleton Top at 1,360 ft. O.D. 
4. Odd finds in Deep House Delph and along the edge to 
Little Clough. 
5. A workshop site between Great Clough and Wildman 
Lane, at 1,400 ft. O.D. 
6. Odd finds on Nab Hill, where also Mr. W. Almond 
has found three workshop sites, which, however, have 
not been rediscovered. 
7. Odd finds in Fly Delph and along Cold Edge, where 
also flints were recorded by Davis 2 over fifty years ago. 
The Hambleton Top site lies at the end of a small wall 
about 60 yds. W. of the footpath to Ogden. The peat has 
here wasted away in patches and groups of flints were exposed 
on the loose sand. Further excavation by digging exposed 
a densely packed workshop floor of chert and a few more 
scattered flints. About 500 pieces of chert, large and small, 
were collected from the floor, but the proportion of tools was 
very small indeed. The finds are described below, the numbers 
referring to fig. 1, kindly drawn by Mr. J. G. D. Clark. About 
thirteen cores, those of the finer chert being worked to less 
than an inch in length. A series of seven tools made from 
thick irregular fragments or broken cores, with one edge 
worked straight, suggesting a use either as scrapers or pressure 
tools ( e.g . Nos. 2 and 4). A few scores of broken blades, a 
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