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%nimU0k €mhrmh. FOURTH SERIES.—No. XIX. JULY, 1874. STONE IMPLEMENTS, ANGLESEY. In the early part of last November (1873) I called at Quirt, or as it ought more correctly to be written Cwyrt, the residence of Hugh Owen, Esq., in the parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesey. The spot was visited by some members of our Association during or soon after the Carnarvon meeting (Sept. 1848), and is referred to by Rowlands in his Antiquitates Parochiales (see Ar- chceologia Cambrensis, vol. i, p. 315, July, 1846, supple¬ ment). A short notice of the small chapel there, having a figure painted on the plaster of the northern wall, is given in Archceologia Cambrensis, vol. ii, p. 41, January, 1847. While standing at the door I hap¬ pened to turn towards a pretty piece of rockwork in the flower garden before the house, when among the stones forming it I spied the implement, No. r*, of the series now under consideration. The pattern is the same on both sides and consists of four pellets in low relief, from between which on either side of the trans¬ verse groove spring two incised lines diverging as they are continued outwardly to the moulding that lies along the edge at either end of the stone. The length is five and one-eighth inches, greatest breadth three and a-half inches, thickness two inches, width of central groove half an inch, depth of groove one-eighth of an inch. It is composed, as far as could be ascertained 4th ser., vol. v. 13