PRE-HISTORIC MAN IN HOLDERNESS. 89 
Stone celts are also occasionally found, and are in the possession 
of different collectors. Mr. Mortimer has some in his museum 
at Driffield, and Mr. T. Boynton of Bridlington has others. On 
a recent excursion of the Hull Geological Society into central 
Holderness (to Leven and Brandesburton) two fine specimens were 
purchased. These had been picked up from the fields. 
At Burstwick some time ago a very large stone hammer and 
axe combined was found whilst ploughing. This is in the 
possession of Mr. Fred Blenkin. It is 103 inches long and 34 
broad, and the hole in the centre is over an inch in diameter. 
Then there are large numbers of querns, or hand-mills for 
grinding corn. In Holderness they are frequently made from 
beach boulders. JI have a pair from the neighbourhood of 
Withernsea ; the lower stone is a granitic boulder and the upper 
one is of basalt. There are also several others in the possession 
of other people. These querns of course may be of almost any 
date from pre-historic to comparatively speaking recent times. 
Mr. Mortimer tells me that he has found them in tumuli on the 
Wolds occasionally, and they would therefore appear to have been 
in use in British times. Being practically indestructible and of 
large size they are found in fair numbers. They are very frequently 
built into walls. 
And now I must bring my notes toaclose. I have endeavoured 
as far as possible to give a fairly comprehensive and complete account 
of all the pre-historic objects found in Holderness, and of the 
structures erected by the pre-historic inhabitants. Whether these 
people were ‘‘wild and savage barbarians” or not I will leave the 
reader to judge. Several of the objects I have referred to have been 
described previously, but usually in out-of-the-way publications. 
I have summarised and quoted references to these descriptions, 
and added to them such extracts from my own note books as 
I thought might be of value, in the hopes that in its present form 
this paper may be of service to students of the fascinating science 
of Archeology. 
Note on THE OcoURRENCE OF THE OTTER AND BapDGER NEAR HULL. 
An otter, a very fine large one, was killed by one of 
Mr. Evison’s men about a year ago near the Barmston drain by 
Cold Harbour Lane, Cottingham. It was very near to or on my 
property I believe. I remember once about fifty years ago seeing 
the “seal” of an otter by the side of the large pond at Hullbank. 
About a year ago, soon after the trees had been cut down, in 
the late Mr. Lawson’s field at Newland, for building purposes, a 
fine badger was found in a heap of the cut down boughs and sticks, 
and killed by some boys and young men. When driving back 
from Hull I saw them carrying it.—B. B. Haworrn Boorg, Col., 
J.P., D.L., Hullbank Hall, 25th June, 1900. 
