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Most of these implements are excellent specimens of the art 
of Neolithic workers in Stone. For the purpose for which they 
were made they seem to have served splendidly. Some of these 
stone implements have been made to fit in wood handles or wood 
handles have been made to fit them, but in the course of ages the 
wood has perished although the stone implement remains a 
lasting witness to the worker’s art. 
Boat Crarv. 
Speaking of wood leads us very naturally to the idea of the 
Boats used by these Neolithic People. Several of these boats 
have been found in the County, one of them with a very fine 
flint implement by its side. This was found at Castlethorpe 
near Brigg, and is the finest specimen of a Neolithic Boat yet 
found and preserved to usin England. It is still to be seen in 
our County in a special shed built to preserve it near Brigg 
Station. I am not able to bring the boat here for your 
inspection, but I am able to bring you a print of it from a 
photograph. The boat is made out of one large oak tree, about 
45 feet long and 5% feet wide inside. It has apparently been 
charred and scraped and chopped out by a stone hatchet and 
was found on the banks of the River Ancholme between Castle- 
thorpe and Glanford Brigg. Another boat not quite so large 
was found near by, but it was again covered up in situ. 
Other boats of this character have been found at Lincoln, and 
at Scotter, North Lincolnshire, the latter was some 50 feet long 
and four feet wide inside, but what has become of these specimens 
I cannot tell as there is no record. 
PoTtTerRY. 
Of the Pottery found in this County, the finest collection 
_ now kept together is undoubtedly that in the possession 
of one of our ex-presidents of the Naturalists’ Union—Mr. H. 
Preston, of Grantham. Owing to his kindness, lam able to show 
you a print of part of this collection from a photograph. 
‘The pottery consisted of what are known as :—Incense Cups, 
(ranging in size from 1 to 4 inches in diameter and from 1 to 34 
