Notes and Comments. 



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SHEFFIELD ANTIQUARIES. 



The Transactions of the Hunter Archaological Society 

 (Vol. II., No. i) contain many valuable papers bearing upon 

 the antiquities of the Sheffield area. Two of the papers 

 particularly appeal to us ; one (Bone and Flint Implements 

 from Bradfield, by A. L. Armstrong) has already appeared 

 in The Naturalist. The other, by the same author, describes 

 a Bronze-age Cinarary Urn from Dronfield Woodhouse. This, 

 with other specimens from the same locality, is now in the 

 Sheffield Museum, where, judging from the paper, obstacles 

 seem to be put in the way of the urns being even seen, much 

 less examined ! The 

 urn forming the, sub- 

 ject of the paper was 

 broken, but has been 

 repaired. Mr. Arm- 

 strong says of it : ' The 

 find is of exceptional 

 interest and import- 

 ance, because the urn 

 is superior to any 

 specimen of its type in 

 the British Museum, 

 the Bateman Collec- 

 tion in the Weston 

 Park Museum, the 

 Mortimer Collection at 

 Hull, or to any of the 

 type specimens illus- 

 trated by Abercromby 

 in Bronze Age Pottery, 

 published in 1912. 

 There is good reason 

 for considering it the 



finest example of its class recorded in Britain.' We are 

 a little puzzled to know in what way it is superior to any 

 other, and what the ' good reason ' is for considering it the 

 finest example in Britain ? Without going further than the 

 Mortimer Collection (and we know that Collection), we con- 

 sider that it contains a specimen ' superior ' to the Dronfield 

 Woodhouse example, the illustration of which we are kindly 

 permitted to reproduce. 



CLEVELAND NATURALISTS. 



The Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, 

 1914-1919 (Vol. III., Part 3, pp. 147-186, 2/6 net), have 

 been published, and bring the record of the work of that 

 Society up to date. J. S. Calvert gives a good general 



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