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EARLY MAN STONTON WYVILLE. Prehistoric cist-burial, probably of the Bronze Age. [Trans. Leic. Archit. and Arch. Sac. iv, 7-10.] BUTTON CHENEY. Bone pin found in a disturbed barrow opened by Sir John Evans, in 1851. [Evans, Stone Imp. 432.] SWITHLAND. A fairly good flint core of the Neolithic Age found at Swithland Reservoir, now in Leicester Museum. SYSTON. Part of a bronze spear-head found 19 ft. deep in the bed of the River Wreak. Now in Leicester Museum. Bronze age cinerary urn, 13 in. high, and 9^ in. in diameter. It was found in a tumulus known as ' Round Hill,' and contained, when discovered, a number of charred bones. It is now in Leicester Museum. [M. Browne, in Trans. Leic. Lit. and Philo. Sue. pt. 9, October, !888, P . 23.] WILLOUGHBY WATERLESS. Late Celtic urn. [Nichols, Hist. Leic. iv, pt. i, pi. Ix, 400.] WITHERLEY HASTWELL COMMON. Chipped and ground flint celt, and perforated stone axe. [Nichols, Hist. Leic. iv, pt. 2, p. 1031.] WYMESWOLD. Witch stone, a natural pebble, perforated by a natural hole, now preserved in Leicester Museum. [Evans, Stone Imp. 470.] 177 23