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A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE worn quartzite pebble 4I inches in length and 3I inches in breadth. It has had a large piece chipped off one end, and has since it was found been broken across and mended. (c) A piece of grit with a cavity of about | of an inch deep in it. Probably half a stone hammerhead which has been broken in two. A fresh hole has been begun to be bored in the larger half. (a) Two stone spindle wheels. (e) A small sub-cyhndrical piece of the local new red sand- stone about 1 1 inches in length and | of an inch in diameter. {/) A small ball of limestone about i inch in diameter. (g) Arrowheads of different kinds. i. Leaf-shaped. One of them is worked in white flint, another of a quartzite stone, one side with a smooth rounded surface, the other with a rough fractured surface. ii. Triangular, iii. Tanged, iv. Tanged and barbed. V. Single-barbed. (/6) Borers or awls. (/) Scrapers, both of the varieties known as thumb and finger flints. (k) Flakes of various shapes and sizes. All these have been collected on his farm there by Mr. John Moore of Tutnall, Tardebigge, at various times and are now in his possession. They have been described and figured in the Proceedings of the Birmingham Archceological Association, 1896, and in Froc. Soc. Atitiq., March, 1897. This completes the Worcestershire list of Prehistoric implements so far as is known. There are doubtless more which have not been re- corded ; perhaps the publication of this list may bring some of them to light. Should this be the case, as individual specimens have little if any value to the possessor, while their collective value as part of a series is considerable, it may be hoped that the owners will at least deposit them for a time in the Victoria Museum at Worcester, so that the list of county implements may be made as complete as possible. At present it stands as follows : — Avon Valley 13 Severn Valley 20 Teme Valley 2 Mid-Worcestershire il Of these only 1 1 are available for study — 9 in the Victoria Museum at Worcester, i in the British Museum and i in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries. Of the remainder 15 are known to be in the possession of individuals, while the localities of the remaining 20 are unknown. 198