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another, 4 inches long, from Arbor Low, Derbyshire. A small chipped celt was found in a barrow at Pelynt,^[1] Cornwall.

Fig. 17.—Near Dunstable.1/2		Fig. 18.—Burwell Fen.1/2

Fig. 17 shows an implement found by my eldest son, at the foot of the Downs, near Dunstable. It has been chipped from a piece of tabular flint, and can hardly have been intended to be ground or polished. It is more than usually oval in form, and in general character approaches very closely to the ovate implements from the River gravels; from the manner in which it is fashioned, and from its being found in company with worked flints unquestionably belonging to the Surface Period, I regard it, however, as of Neolithic and not of Palæolithic age.^[2] Another implement of much the same form, found near Grime's Graves, in Norfolk,^[3] has been figured by Canon Greenwell, F.R.S. Others were found at Cissbury,^[4] Sussex, and at Dunmer,^[5] and near Ellisfield Camp, Hants. Mr. C. Monkman had another, 53/4 inches long, and rather narrower in its proportions, found at Bempton, Yorkshire. I have implements of much the same shape, though larger, from some of the ancient flint-implement manufactories of Belgium.

The next specimen (Fig. 18) is from Burwell Fen, Cambridge, and

1. "Nænia Cornubiæ," p. 194.
2. The discoveries of Mr. Worthington Smith at Caddington, a few miles from Dunstable, suggest the possibility of this specimen being, after all, palæolithic.
3. Jour. Eth. Soc., N. S., vol. ii., pl. xxviii. 7.
4. Arch., vol. xlii., pl. viii. 10, 11.
5. Arch. Assoc. Jour., vol. xlv., p. 114.