' British' Pottery made by ' Flint Jack.' 



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Bridlington) lived. Many of these specimens, which she 

 handed over to me, and are now in the museum at Hull, 

 are figured on the plates of flint implements accompanying a 

 paper on ' The Remains of a Primitive People in the South 

 East Corner of Yorkshire : with some remarks on the Early 

 Ethnology of Britain,' which appeared in Vol. III. of The 

 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 

 (1856), the author in this case also being Thomas Wright. 

 Subsequently, I figured a number of the more extraordinary 

 of these flints in The Antiquary , the article being reprinted in 

 Forgeries and Counterfeit Antiquities ' as Hull Museum 

 Publication No. 54, 1908. 



Fig. 2. — Vase in the York Museum. 



At the same time Miss Cape gave me a curious cylindrical 

 vase made of reddish pottery, smoothed on the outside, and 

 decorated in an altogether impossible manner for British 

 Pottery, the decoration consisting of concentric circles, and 

 triangles and lozenges one within the other. I recognised that 

 the vase was the one illustrated by Wright, and Miss Cape told 

 me that her father had bought it from Tindall, who had bought 

 it from ' Flint Jack,' who stated that he had discovered it in 

 a 'tomoloo,' (Flint Jack's idea of the singular of the word 

 ' tumulus ') near Bridlington. It appeared that ■£$ was paid 

 fro this treasure, which was kept on a chimney-piece in a 

 room not often used. Unfortunately (or fortunately !), one 

 day it was accidently knocked down from the shelf, and fell 

 on to the hearth, where it broke into numerous pieces. These 



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