LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PACE The Mersey. By William Hyde .......... Frontispiece Contorted Beds in Clitheroe and Blackburn Railway . . . . . . . .11 Arrowheads and Miscellaneous Small-worked Flints from thel , „ , -- • Neolithic Floor of South-east Lancashire . . .] ' ' /"^^^S' P^", M'^g 214 Mottled Stone Celt fipm Windy Harbour, Pendle . . . . . . .217 Celt with flattened sides from Leagram Hall . . . . . . . -217 Stone Celts and Hammers of Lancashire ...... fuH-fage plate, facing 2 1 8 Stone Adze from Greenheys, Manchester . . . . . . . . . .219 „ „ „ Corporation Street, Manchester . . . . . . . .220 Large Adze from Cheetwood, Manchester . . . . . . . . . .220 Section of Stone Axe from Harpurhey, Manchester . . . . . . . .221 Stone Axe found at Wilpshire, near Blackburn . . . . . . . .222 Perforated Stone Axes and Axe-Hammers of Lancashire . . . full-page plate, facing 222 Axe-Hammer from the Lune, near Lancaster . . . . . . . . .223 „ „ from Heaton Chapel . . . . . . . . . . .224 „ „ found near Lancaster . . . . . . . . . . .225 Small Hammer from Queen's Park, Bolton . . . . . . . . .226 Round Stone Hammer from Goosnargh . . . . . . . . .227 Bronze Celt with slight Flanges, from Read . . .. . . . . . .230 Palstave found at Ainsworth . . . . . . . . . . . .231 „ from Martin Mere . . . . . . . . . .231 Bronze Palstave from Ashworth Moor . . . . . . . . . . .232 Plain Socketed Celt from Winmarleigh . . . . . . . . . .232 Bronze Implements of Lancashire ....... full-page plate, facing 232 Ribbed Socketed Celt from Winmarleigh . . . . . . . . . .233 Celt with Outcurving Edge from Winmarleigh . . . . . . . . -233 Celt with Recurving Edge from Winmarleigh . . . . . . . . .233 Bronze Dagger from near Colne . . . . . . . . . . .234 Bronze Spear-head from Preston . . . . . . . . . . -235 Spear-head looped on Shaft, from Irlam . . . . . . .236 Bronze Implements from Winmarleigh, North Lancashire . . . full-page pkte, facing 236 Spear-Head looped in Blade from Piethorne, near Rochdale . . . . . . .237 Section of a Bronze Age Tumulus at Winwick . . . . . . . . .241 Patterns upon Cinerary Urns from Darwen .......... 242 Urn with Punctuated Decoration from Darwen ......... 242 Urn from Blackburn ............. 243 Plan and Section of Timber Burial Circle, &c., at Bleasdale ....... 243 Wooden Canoe and Pottery Vessels of Bronze Age, from Lancashire . full-page plate, facing 244 Sword and Sheath from Warton . . . . . . . . . . .247 Late Celtic Dagger-Sheath from Pilling Moss 247 Bronze Beaded Torque from Mow Road (Rochdale) ........ 248 Wooden Dug-out Canoe from Barton-upon-Irwell ........ 248 • Wooden Dug-out Canoe found at Irlam .......... 249 Dug-out found at Crossens 249 xvii