It will be well now to refer to some of the published notices of the discovery of these implements, which seem to have met with little attention from antiquaries until within the last forty years. There is, however, in the British Museum a fine horseshoe-shaped scraper, which was found long ago by the late Dr. Mantell, in company with broken urns and ashes, in a barrow on Windore Hill, near Alfriston. In the same collection are four or five others of various sizes from barrows on Lambourn Downs, Berks, as well as those from the Greenwell Collection. Sir R. Colt Hoare has recorded the discovery of what appear to be two discoidal scrapers, with a flint spear-head or dagger, a small hone or whetstone, and a cone and ring of jet, like a pulley, accompanying an interment, near Durrington Walls.[1375] He terms them little buttons of chalk or marl; but from the engraving it would seem that they were scrapers—probably of flint, much weathered, or altered in structure. It seems likely that many more may have escaped his notice, as they are of common occurrence in the tumuli in Wiltshire, as well as in the other parts of Britain. They are also recorded |309| from Morgan’s Hill[1376] and Winterbourn Stoke. The late Dean Merewether[1377] found several in barrows on Avebury Down, together with numerous flint flakes. Some were found with burnt bodies in barrows at Cockmarsh,[1378] Berks, and others in a barrow at Great Shefford.[1379] They occurred in barrows at Seaford,[1380] Sussex, and Lichfield,[1381] Hants, as well as in Devonshire[1382] barrows. Ten or twelve were also found by Dr. Thurnam in the chambered Long Barrow, at West Kennet,[1383] 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,[1384] Cornwall. In the Yorkshire barrows they abound in company both with burnt and unburnt bodies,[1385] 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,[1386] and with another contracted skeleton with two sets of Kimmeridge coal beads, at Cow Low, Buxton,[1387] and with four skeletons in a cist, in a barrow near Monsal Dale.[1388] They not unfrequently occur with interments in association with bronze weapons. In a barrow on Parwich Moor, Staffordshire,[1389] 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.[1390]