[151] MS. letters, Mr. J. C. Brown, A.R.S.A. An interesting account of the discovery of numerous flint flakes, and weapons in all stages of progress, in the celebrated ossiferous cave of Kent's Hole, near Torquay, is introduced in a subsequent chapter. [152] Lines written on visiting a scene in Argyleshire. [153] Sinclair's Stat. Acc. vol. xvii. p. 115. [154] They are described by this name of _thunderstones_ in Sir Robert Sibbald's Portes Coloniæ et Castellæ, Plate II. Nos. 1-6. [155] Fornaldar Sögur Nordlanda. Copenhagen, 1829. [156] Gentleman's Mag. 1797, Part II. p. 200. [157] Catalogue of Antiquities, Soc. Antiq. Lond. p. 14. [158] I have retained the name of stone celt, notwithstanding its rejection by Mr. Worsaae and his intelligent English editor, in the "Primeval Antiquities of Denmark applied to the illustration of similar remains in England." The advantage of a fixed terminology cannot be overestimated; but in this case the term is of great value in order to distinguish a peculiar class of stone implements more frequently found in Scotland and Ireland than the stone or flint hatchet, and to which the British antiquary has special grounds for applying it. Both Owen and Spurrel give, as the meaning of the ancient Cambro-British _celt_, a flint stone. I propose, therefore, to retain it in what is obviously its primary acceptation, applying the name of bronze celt to the metal weapon afterwards substituted for it. [159] _Vide_ Hibbert's Shetland, pp. 247-250. [160] Antiquités Celtiques et Antidiluviennes. [161] _Vide ante_, p. 35. [162] Archæological Journal, vol. iv. p. 3. [163] New Statist. Acc., Kirkcudbrightshire, vol. iv. p. 332. [164] New Statist. Acc, Argyleshire, vol. vii. p. 243. [165] Sinclair's Statistical Account, vol. x. p. 186. [166] New Statist. Acc. vol. vi. p. 734. [167] Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi, p. 219. [168] Archæol. Scotica, vol. iv. p. 188. [169] Barry's Hist. Orkney Islands, p. 206. [170] Carey's Dante, Canto ix. l. 97. [171] MS. Soc. Ant. Scot. Rev. Charles Clouston. [172] New Stat. Acc., Lanarkshire, vol. vi. p 734. [173] Barry's Orkney, p. 206. [174] New Stat. Acc., Kirkcudbrightshire, vol. iv. p. 196. [175] New Stat. Acc., Wigtonshire, p. 143. [176] Sinclair's Stat. Acc. vol. xix. p. 59. [177] Pennant's Tour, vol i. p. 116. [178] Barry's History of the Orkney Islands, p. 206. [179] Minutes of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 27th April 1829. [180] New Statist. Acc. vol. ix. p. 60. [181] New Statist. Acc. vol. v. p. 256. [182] Sinclair's Statist. Acc. vol. xiii. p. 383. _Vide_ also vol iii. p. 57. Archæological Journal, vol. ii. p. 80. [183] The inferior articular surface of the bone has separated, which supplies evidence of its having been a lamb, union not having taken place owing to the youth of the animal. CHAPTER VII. STONE VESSELS. [Illustration: Uyea Stone Urns.] [Illustration]