"The excavation would be altogether not less than 12 feet 

 " deep, and in the lower clay were embedded a number of 

 " tree stumps. While standing on the margin and looking 

 " down, the remark was made : ' I wonder how long ago it is 

 " since those trees were gi owing 1 ' A voice came from lielow 

 " ' not very long, sir, for this here stump has been cut down 

 " with an axe.' On going down to examine it, I certainly 

 " saw distinct marks which could scarcely be produced by 

 " anything except the strokes of an axe. The stump was 

 " short, with a series of nearly horizontal cuts across the 

 " grain ; all the others were long and splintered. What kind 

 " of trees they were I could not say with certainty. I should 

 " also add that a number of Deers' Horns turned up in 

 " excavating, but I cannot remember at what depth they were 

 " found." 



An axe hammer head was dredged out of the River Tees a 

 few yards a^vay from the tree stumps just described and is 

 now in our Museum. I forwarded Canon (xreenwell a 

 photograph of it. He kindly sent the following report and 

 I take this opportunity of again thanking him for it. 



" It is a very tine specimen, and an implement, or rather 

 weajjon, of uncommon occurrence. Similar weapons have 

 now and then been found associated with burials, both of 

 unburnt and burnt bodies. They belong to the bronze 

 period, and when found with an interment have been 

 deposited in company with bronze weapons, for example, 

 daggers. 1 suppose your specimen has the hole liored 

 through with a tube and not, as in perforated axes of the 

 stone period, from each side with a pointed piece of wood 

 or lione." 



Tlie Canon's supposition is correct, and further, the imple- 

 ment is made of whinstone being of the same sp. gr. as the 

 Cleveland Whindyke as ascertained by the displacement test. 

 I therefore conclude that it is of our local augite-andesite 

 rock. 



Several antlers and bones of the red deer (Cervus elaphus) 

 have been taken from the same place and are now ])reserved 

 in the Museum A skull of the " Urus," (Bns jjrimiiicnius), 

 ■was also recovered a little nearer Billingham landing. 



Drainage excavations now in progress along jNfarsli Road 

 reveal the following section : — 



