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ments brought in. In those days many farm servants spent 
their evenings and Sundays in walking up and down the fields, 
finding flints. Baskets-full were often brought to the office 
at Fimber, where a case or two of typical umplements were on 
view. One ‘prize’ consisted of a free ticket to the Leeds 
Exhibition of 1866. 
Later, as might be expected, there were other competitors, 
amongst whom were S. Chadwick of Malton, Canon Greenwell of 
Durham, F. Porter of Yedingham, C. Monkman and C. Hartley, 
G. Edson and T. Allerston of Malton, the Rev. J. Robertson of 
Barton-le-Street, T. Boynton and R. Gatenby (Bridlington), 
and the Rev. T. J. Monson of Kirby Underdale. Most of 
those named have ‘ gone before,’ though a younger race (of 
whom the writer may count himself one) has entered the field, 
albeit there remains but the ‘gleanings.’ Yet, such a hold 
has Mr. Mortimer on the district, that flint implements are to- 
day known as ‘ Mortimers,’ and ‘ Tak it ti Motimer ’ is still the 
phrase heard when anything unusual is turned up. 
As regards the geological specimens, for half a century Mr. 
Mortimer had practically no serious rivals, Messrs. Chadwick 
and Tindall being the only others interested. In this way all 
the fine specimens, principally from the chalk, which occupy the 
cases on the ground floor in the Driffield Museum, are accounted 
for; and the value of these is increased by the careful way in 
which they are all labelled as regards locality—even to the 
very field* in which they were obtained. 
Notwithstanding the archeological and geological value of 
the tens of thousands of specimens picked up from the fields 
and quarries of the wold area, the greatest scientific work which 
Mr. Mortimer has accomplished lies in the explorations he has 
made in the prehistoric burial mounds of the Wold area. 
During the past fifty years he has opened over three hundred 
barrows, and methodically described and sketched their 
contents. Much of this work was dealt with in papers printed in 
the proceedings of various archeological societies, and in ‘ The 
Naturalist,’ and the whole was brought together, with plans, 
sections, and over a thousand beautiful drawings by his daugh- 
ter, Miss Agnes Mortimer, in the ‘ Forty Years’ Researches 
already referred to. A few barrows have been opened since 
that work appeared, particulars of which have been given in 
the papers referred to at the end of these notes. 
It is a great gain to archeology that Mr. Mortimer, almost 
single-handed, undertook this work when he did ; as agricul- 
* The specimens bear numbers which correspond with the fields numbered 
on the ordnance plans of the district. 
+ The full title is ‘Forty Years’ Researches in British and Saxon Burial 
Mounds of East Yorkshire.’ Hull: A. Brown & Sons, 1905, pp. IXxxvi. + 
452, and 125 plates. 
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