224 T ardenoisian Sites on Oxenhope Moor. 
few whole blades, un worked, and three or four worked blades. 
Of the latter (No. 5) is worked on one side and the end, while 
(No. 6) has been notched. There are four pygmy points 
(Nos. 19 and 20) being well-made trapezoids, while (Nos. 
1 7 and 22) are crude and unfinished. There is a single minute 
micro-burin (No. 14). Perhaps the most interesting tool is 
the large burin (No. 1). It is of the gouge type, and conforms 
most closely to the single-polyhedric pattern. It has been 
resharpened at least once, as indicated by the stepping on the 
graver facets on both sides, and the base has been worked 
as a scraper, but has been broken at the corner. It should 
be noted that while occurring in a Tardenoisian floor this 
tool is of perfect Upper Palaeolithic type. 
The scattered flints total less than a quarter of the bulk 
of the chert, but the proportion of implements and blades 
is much larger. They include six cores (e.g. No. 3) ; a large 
rough scraper, notched, and with indications of long use ; 
many unworked blades and five worked blades ; a good 
batter -back blade (No. 8) ; and three pygmy points of 
sub -triangular form (e.g. Nos. 15 and 16). 
The cherts and flints all occur in the thin sand, here 
varying from one to eight inches in thickness, underlying 
the peat and resting on the sandstone floor (Rough Rock 
Flags). In the chert floor the cherts occurred at the very 
top of the sand and often projected into the sandy base of 
the peat, so that when the peat was ripped up in excavation 
the cherts often came with it. At the base of the sand, stems 
and roots were found and identified by Dr. Woodhead as 
birch, but it was impossible to tell whether they had been 
introduced by the chert workers or had grown there previously. 
The chert is of more than one type ; the best is a shining 
compact chert of lead-grey colour, slightly bluish ; there is 
also much coarser light -grey chert and a little black and brown . 
There is nothing to indicate its source, and while it might 
be found within ten miles to the N.W., the use of chert in 
the Huddersfield sites might equally well suggest importation 
from North Derbyshire. As, however, chert implements are 
rare in the Yoredale country where chert beds abound, a 
southern origin appears more likely. The flint is mostly 
light brown and shows a slight patination in the form of 
grey -white mottling. 
The Great Clough site occupies the only patch of rock 
surface exposed between Great Clough and Wildman Lane. 
This patch was less than 10 sq. yds. when discovered, but 
has been extended by excavation. While the flints were 
fairly numerous it is still doubtful whether the main workshop 
floor has yet been uncovered. Flint is here the more 
abundant material, chert only forming a third of the total. 
The Naturalist 
