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 :2S6 PIIOCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OP the Other, which led tu the sui)]iositi«iU that ;i l);ittlo hud thLix' utcunod between two tribes using different weui>ons>. lint Mr. W:iy states that at Bournenjuuth, where there seems to have been a Ion-,' occuivit! 'ii, all kinds of tlint arrow-heads are found indiscriminately, lie also suggests that they may have been made for dilferent jnu-poses, and also that after failing to make a barbed iicad out of a tlint, it might be worked up into .1 leaf shajied hciid. Mr. AVay also states that close to the station at Red Hill w:ste chips have been found by hundreds at a place where there is no flint ; this shows that tlints were carried to be manufactured at dis- tant places, and that there were manufactories of them, and possibly the difterences may be explained by the mauiifacturei-s making the dillerent kinds to serve their customers' requirements. Some of the heads are so small that they probably were intended for killing birds, or small animals.^ Lastly, a cori'cct, though rough, sketch of the to^) stone of a Runic obelisk, which was lately turned up in the llole-of-Orcum quarry, near the cliff edge, on the north side of the Abbey at Whitby. It ha.s formed part of a four-sided pillar, broad at the base and naiTOwing upward. The length is 18 in., by 9 in. across the bottom, and the diminished breadth at the top is 7^ inches. Plainly moulded at the angles, the surfaces arc charged with the scroll work ]tcrt;xining to these primitive monuments, which has been assigned to the 7th century. The summit has come to a point on which some ornament may have been fixed. There are no signs of lettering on the stone, as the characters for an inscription would occur on the lower or wider i)ortions of the pillar ; and these, if not already .shot into the sea witii the rubbish, might pos- sibly be the reward of a search. As such memorials were mostly sepul- chral, the ])resent fragment, in all i>robability, has belonged to one of that character, from the nearness of the monastic " Cemetery of St. Peter," to the (piarter where it was fouml. The chetpiering agrees witii the kind on the well-known obelisk at llackness, in the vicinity of "Whitby, exlnmied on the side of the convent established in that place b}' St. Hilda, after she had founded, with the aid of King Osw}-, the convent of Streonshalh the ja-edecessor of the Abbe}' of Whitby. The ])iece in (piestion, ikjw laid near the Hall lodge, belongs to that class of monu- mei.ts to whiih Charlton alludes when ho tells us that Dorwick, the incumbent of ^^'hitl>y, in the early jiart of the last centiny, dealt the blow of destruction to whatever remained of the Abbey tondtstones, for a 1-eft.son, among othei"S, that they were "relics of popery."'' A short notice was connunnicated, tlnough J)r. Thurnam, of tin- discovery of some cinerary urns of unusual character at Dewlisli, l)ursct. In .September, 1H7I, a small liarrow about midway between l)(n'- chestcr aiul I'landford was examined by Mr. .lames Ihown, of Salisbury, to whose kindness the Institute is indebted tor photographs of two remarkable urns that were brought to light by his cxeavations. (.Sec the ftccomjianying woodcuts). The barrow was of small dimensions, nicnsuring about t ft. only in height. In the centre was foimd an urn (»f cylindrii'id furm. 1 1 inclies high, in fashion similartoan «)rdinary flower- pot ; it c<intained burnt itoncs, ami was placed erect, Hiuromided :iiid Wil.lo, CaUI. Mum lU.y. I. Acnil. ; " Hoiro xvi., 333, 33(i, 3^ 1, .-t h<.|. Koralwi ;" nu'! cxpi'i-inlly KvnnH'n f^ont * Kxlmct from a V« liitliy p.-ipur.
 * S«<) Ardi. Juiirn. vol. vli. 283; work on Aiiclrtit .*<toiic Iiiiiilinn ntn, c.