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Rh from Morgan's Hill and Winterbourn Stoke. The late Dean Merewether found several in barrows on Avebury Down, together with numerous flint flakes.

Some were found with burnt bodies in barrows at Cockmarsh, Berks, and others in a barrow at Great Shefford.

They occurred in barrows at Seaford, Sussex, and Lichfield, Hants, as well as in Devonshire barrows.

Ten or twelve were also found by Dr. Thurnam in the chambered Long Barrow, at West Kennet, with about three hundred flint flakes. There was no trace of metal, nor of cremation in this barrow.

A neat scraper was found in a hut-circle on Carn Brê, Cornwall.

In the Yorkshire barrows they abound in company both with burnt and unburnt bodies, without any metal being present. Canon Greenwell has in some cases found them with the edge worn smooth by use.

Mr. Bateman found many in Derbyshire barrows, as, for instance, at the head of a contracted skeleton on Cronkstone Hill, and with another contracted skeleton with two sets of Kimmeridge coal beads, at Cow Low, Buxton, and with four skeletons in a cist, in a barrow near Monsal Dale.

They not unfrequently occur with interments in association with bronze weapons. In a barrow on Parwich Moor, Staffordshire, called Shuttlestone, Mr. Bateman found a skeleton, with a bronze dagger at the left arm, and a plain flat bronze celt at the left thigh, and close to the head a jet bead and a "circular flint." As before stated, the late Mr. J. W. Flower, obtained three, and a bronze dagger, from the same barrow as the saw engraved at p. 266. They were also found with bronze in barrows in Rushmore Park.

They are frequently to be seen on the surface of the ground. One such, found by the late Mr. C. Wykeham Martin, F.S.A., at Leeds Castle, Kent, has been figured. Others from the neighbourhood of Hastings, the Isle of Thanet, and Bradford Abbas, Dorset, have also been engraved. Many of those from Bradford are said to have a notch on the left side, but I am doubtful whether it is intentional. Gen. Pitt Rivers has found them at Callow Hill, Oxon, and at Rotherley. They are also recorded from Holyhead Island, Anglesea,