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JOURNAL OP THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
only along the coast, but on Dartmoor and the Lizard district, 
wherever old settlements can be traced, and frequently in very con- 
siderable quantities. The implements from Broom consist for the 
most part of chert ; a few only have been found composed of flint. 
They are of a dark red colour, and amongst them are all the 
different types of palaeolithic implements from other localities. 
Many of them are of a large size, and finished with much care ; 
others are ruder. The gravel deposit consists of an enormous 
mound, or heap, which has long been quarried for material for 
ballasting the line belonging to the South- Western Eailway Com- 
pany, and good implements have been picked up along the line for 
some miles. There is a band of sand mixed with gravel that runs 
in a horizontal direction near the base of this mound, and it is 
from this band that the implements have been for the most part 
obtained. 
Through the kindness of Mr. d'Urban, of the Albert Memorial 
Museum, at Exeter, I am enabled to place upon the table for your 
inspection a few of these specimens, which, if perhaps not so good 
as many which have been obtained, at all events are nearly repre- 
sentative of the deposit, a few forms only being absent; amongst 
these I may mention the lance shaped, and those that have an edge 
curved like a scimitar; these last are very rare. In the Exeter 
Museum are at least fifty specimens ; these, however, do not nearly 
comprise the whole that have been found, but they exhibit all the 
forms. Very few true flakes have been met with, and if cores are 
contained in the deposit they do not appear to have been 
obtained. 
Polished implements have been found at Trevalga, Ealmouth, 
Truro, and Pelynt ; saddle querns and grinding-stones in other 
parts of Cornwall. In the Exeter Museum there is a large stone 
hammer found at Honiton, and there is another similar hammer in 
the possession of Mr. Spence Bate, that was procured near Tavi- 
stock. In our own museum are two beautiful polished celts found 
in peat near the head of the Walkham, on Dartmoor ; and also two 
chipped spear heads, said to have been found at Hemerdon, but 
believed to be from North America. Almost all the forms of 
chipped arrow heads that have been found in Great Britain appear 
to have their representatives in the two counties. They have 
been obtained from under peat at Dartmoor by Mr. Spence Bate, 
and some in my own collection are from barrows near the Cheese- 
