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THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE. 
(Continued from page 186). 
PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 
THE section of this volume dealing with pre-historic remains 
(other than earth-works, which are being described later) has 
been written by Mr. George Clinch, F.G.S., who must be 
congratulated upon the thoroughness with which he has 
accomplished his task. In perusing his notes, it is obvious 
that not only has the writer made himself conversant with 
the voluminous literature on the subject, but he has also visited 
the principal collections in the county. Mr. Clinch gives a 
useful summary of the relics (pottery, dwellings, etc.) of the 
Neolithic Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. His notes 
are illustrated by a large number of drawings and photographs 
of typical vases, implements, weapons, ornaments, carved 
stones, etc. He has obviously and admittedly been greatly 
assisted in his work by the fact that two such excellent 
memoirs as Canon Greenwell’s ‘British Barrows’ and Mortimer’s 
‘Forty Years’ Researches’ have appeared, dealing very largely 
with the county ; and, in addition, the museums in this broad- 
acred shire are also exceptionally well furnished with relics of 
early man. As might be expected, the spelling of both personal 
and place names indicates a want of familiarity with the county, 
and this might have been prevented by allowing any of the 
numerous Yorkshire antiquaries to have read the proofs. In 
some instances the same individual has his name spelt in two 
or three different ways. 
With regard to the Rudston monolith, Mr. Clinch may be 
pleased to know that its depth underground has been demon- 
strated by excavation ; also, there were formerly four or more 
stones forming the Devil’s Arrows near Borough-bridge (see 
‘ Naturalist,’ Feb., 1903, pp. 34-5). To his list of pre-historic 
antiquities in Yorkshire many additions might be made. This 
list is ‘an attempt to put on record all the more important 
discoveries of pre-historic relics in Yorkshire.’ Curiously 
enough, Mr. Clinch omits from this list some of the specimens 
he describes in the text. There are several localities in which 
important finds have been made not referred to in the list, and 
South Ferriby should not have been included, as the place is in 
Lincolnshire. The mark at Ferriby on the Yorkshire map 
containing Mr. Clinch’s notes, therefore, does not apply, though 
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