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280 merely votive offerings, appeared to be somewhat doubtful. The urns associated with them were such as might well belong to the Bronze Period.

Flint flakes are described as found in graves with contracted interments at Amble, Northumberland; Driffield, Yorkshire; Ballidon Moor, Derbyshire; Littleton Drew, and Winterbourn Stoke, Wilts. Canon Greenwell has also found them in great numbers with interments of different characters. They occurred with extended burials at Oakley Park, near Cirencester. In some of the long barrows they are especially numerous, upwards of three hundred having been found by Dr. Thurnam at West Kennet, while there were three only in that of Rodmarton, and two were found at the base of the cairn in the chambered tumulus at Uley, Gloucestershire. Another accompanied a skeleton in a long barrow near Littleton Drew. Sir Richard Colt Hoare speaks of a great quantity of chipped flints, prepared for arrows or lances, as having been found in barrows on Long Street Down, and at Brigmilston, Wilts; but, as a rule, he seems not to have taken much notice of such simple forms. Others have been discovered with ashes at Helmingham, Suffolk.

It is, however, needless, to cite more instances of their occurrence with interments belonging to the Stone and Bronze Ages, as the presence of flakes and chippings of flint is in such cases the rule rather than the exception.

In Scotland, where flint is a scarcer natural product, they are also found. As instances, I may cite one found in an urn within a cist at Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire; and in a cist in Arran. In some parts of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire they are numerous, and in the Buchan district are associated with shell mounds, or kjökken-möddings. They occur also in Lanarkshire and Elgin. In Orkney they abound: as also at the Bin of Cullen, where a manufactory of arrow-heads seems to have existed. In cists in Roxburghshire were sepulchral urns and numerous flint flakes; and in Argyllshire there were in a cist with a skeleton flint flakes in such numbers as to form a heap from eighteen inches to two feet in height. Some of white quartz have been found associated with arrow-heads in Banffshire. Little heaps of six or eight were found in each corner of a grave at Clashfarquhar, Aberdeen. They abound on the sand-hills near Glenluce and on the Culbin Sands.

Of ancient encampments or settlements where flint flakes occur in