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Notes and Comments. 



A BRONZE-AGE HAWF. 



By the courtesy of the publishers of l^he Naturalist, we are 

 able to give the illustration of the barrow near Driffield,* which 

 contained the remains of a hawk. It was opened by the late 

 Lord Londesborough in 1851, and besides the remains of the 

 hawk (between the wrists and knees) contained two amber 

 beads, a bronze dagger, an earthenware ' drinking-cup ' and 

 other typical Bronze-age reUcs. ' On the bones of the right 

 arm was laid a very singular and beautiful armlet, made of 

 some large animal's bone, about six inches long. ... In this 

 were two perforations about half-an-inch from each end, 

 through which were bronze pins or rivets with gold heads, 

 most probably to attach it to a piece of leather which had 



passed round the arm, and had been fastened by a small 

 bronze buckle, which was found underneath the iDones,' no 

 doubt the remains of a device for protecting the hawker's 

 arm from the claws of the bird. 



o:l waste and marine life. 

 A correspondent in a well-known ' Nature Lover's Diary ' 

 recently visited ' the Holderness coast, along a stretch some 

 miles to the north of Withernsea. Along the upper part of the 

 beach he found high-water mark defined by a line of disgusting 

 large and small blobs of thick oil, having the consistency and 

 tenacity of tar. So abundant was the oil that it was difificult 

 to secure sufficient cast-up examples of the most common 

 seashore animals and plants. Sea-mats, sea-firs, Tubularia, 

 " bottle-brushes," red and brown seaweeds, ascidians on the 

 roots of Laminaria, and skates' egg-cases were in plenty, but 



* iMdin Murlimcr's ' Forty Years' Researches,' p. 27 



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