114 A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT. 



[Some substance resembling Red Ochre was foimd on the 

 bottom of the ReHc-bed. On this Mr. F. W. Riidler, F.G.S., 

 has kindly reported as follows : — 



Two pieces of a fine laminated .sandy clay, coloured with o.Kide of iron, 

 forming a peach-blo3som coloured ochre, which ^ives a good streak, and 

 might have been used as a pale reddle. Mr C. Reid does not know any 

 material like it among the rocks of East Anglia, and suggest that it may have 

 been derived from the Trias. — F. W. Rudler] 



Iron Relics. — .Some Horse-shoes were found nearer the 

 surface ; of these, several belong to small animals the size of a 

 cob; they occur at a high leveb but the pattern is mediaeval 

 type; a small space is left fen' the frog; the rim is I7, inches 

 wide; there are nail holes, but no tips front or back ; the bottom 







Pig. 16. Fragment of base of vessel from Skitts Hill. One-half size. 



is distinctly convex for the tread. This kind of horse-shoe is 

 usually called Roman ; but I doubt the correctness of the term ; 

 it would be better to call them Saxon, Danish, or Norman, for 

 we know that these people shod their horses by nailing the shoes 

 on. 



NOTES BY THE AUTHOR. 



The Cause of the Presei'vatioii of Some of the Objects. 



The condition of the bones at various levels varies much. 

 Those found in the lowest bed are almost perfect, for these sank 

 under the gently-moving water at the margin of a liroad lake, 

 and were subsequently enveloped in the lake mud, mixed with 

 vegetable growth and decayed weeds and rushes. Under these 

 conditions the bones obtained the smooth, glossy, and unctuous 



