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doing so found the oven or kiln mentioned bj' Mr. \V. H. King', in his paper at 

 the recent meeting of the Essex ArchjEological Society at Colchester. In its 

 immediate vicinity a vase was found containing some bronze celts and an armillai 

 and these have been secured for the British Museum. Possibly they may have 

 been a portion of the stock-in-trade of a merchant or founder, as there was 'a 

 lump of metal with them." — From the " Antiquary " for April, 1892. 



Early Pottery at Clacton-on-Sea. — " During last week, as some men 

 were engaged in digging gravel on Mr. P. Smith's farm at Bull Hill, they found 

 three vases in the red gravel three feet from the surface. They were found on 

 different days. The first was unfortunately broken and the others injured. 

 They appear to be early British or pre-Roman. One measured 5 inches in diameter, 

 and was 6 inches in height. The shape is that of an ordinary water-bottle, only 

 with a larger neck. The outside is of a beautiful red colour, and very smooth. 

 The ornamentation is very regular, and the design is very primitive. The 

 interiors are rough, and underneath the red outside is a layer of black clay. 

 Fragments of unburnt pottery were also found ; and from the nature of the 

 upper strata, in which are many calcined stones, it is possible that a pottery may 

 have existed on the spot." — From the " Essex Standard," May 7th, l8g2. 



Palaeolithic Implement at Felstead. — On the 27th April, I found on the 

 left bank of the Ter, near Peak's Hall, Felstead, a well worked Pakeolithic 

 Implement. It is 3 inches long, 2 inches wide, and i inch thick ; shaped to a 

 chisel paint at one end, and has a butt a lapted to the hand at the other end. It 

 is of flint, and has a white lustrous coating. This is the second Palaeolithic 

 Implement I have found resting on a denuded surface of Boulder-Clay ; but how 

 it got there there is no evidence to show. — J. Fren'CH, Felstead. 



County Museums. — The following is the paragraph from the ''Antiquary " 

 for January, referred to by Mr. Fitch in his " Presidential Address," ante page 72. 

 With regard to the suggestion for the circulation of objects among villages 

 and other districts, attention may be called to the suggestive paper by Mr. F. ^V. 

 Rudler in our last volume on " Cabinets of Natural History Specimens for 

 Circulation among the Village Schools of Essex " (E. N., vol. v., pp. 186-189), 

 where the idea is admirably set forth : — "We have good reason to believe that 

 when the question of district and village councils comes before Parliament in the 

 ensuing session, or, as is more probable, in the newly elected Parliament, a 

 proviso of considerable interest to antiquaries will be inserted in the bill. It will 

 be proposed that the County Council shall be instructed to provide a central 

 museum and library for the area of the county, and that the museum objects and 

 books shall circulate from time to time to village halls or smaller local centres. 

 No doubt in the mmds of the proposers of this scheme ' museum objects ' would 

 primarily mean such substances and raw and manufactured material as illustrated 

 the particular industries and trades of the district ; but archaeological objects have 

 not been forgotten. It would add immensely to the study of the past if a general 

 notion of the nature and appearance of pre-historic implements, early pottery, 

 coinage, and the like, could be spread throughout our country districts by the 

 circulation of carefully chosen specimens." 



