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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

of their habitations or graves have been recorded ; no examples of the long
cairn of neolithic times, with the burial chamber and entrance passage
suitable for repeated interments, are known to exist, although a long cairn, the
" Mutiny Stones " (Berwickshire Inventory, No. 249) probably of the same class,
lies within half a mile of the southern boundary of the county. Very few flint imple-
ments are recorded from the inland parts, but in recent years considerable numbers

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FIG.6. - Bronze Spearhead (15 1/2 inches) from East Lothian (p. xxxvi).

of these relics, including
barbed and leaf-shaped arrow-
heads, scrapers, knives, saws
and borers, have been brought
to light on the sands near
Gullane and Archerfield and
in fields within a few miles of
Dunbar : a number of stone
axes, flint arrowheads, scrapers and knives have been found during excavations on
Traprain Law and a knife-like implement and scraper of the same material on
North Berwick Law. The flint of which these implements are fashioned is the same

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FIG. 7. - Urn from Stobshiel.

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FIG. 8. - Urn from Drem.

as that used in Berwickshire for similar purposes ; it is of a fine quality of grey or
black colour. A small proportion of yellow flint is seen, but the predominant colour
is a translucent grey of various shades. From the quantity of fine flakes
found in the localities which produce the finished implements it seems evident
that they were made at these places, although it may be noted that very few
of the roughly pyramidal cores or nuclei so often seen on the sites of flint
factories have been found. A few stone axes also have been unearthed ; one
from Stobshiel, Humbie, and another from Garvald are preserved in the
National Museum of Antiquities, while at least six others have been found

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