ON THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL SUUVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, &27 



destruction of dialects and of local superstitions, beliefs, and practices, 

 and by the introduction of immigrants, especially attracted by the 

 mining and manufacturing operations there pursued. Hence it is that 

 the population is greatly mixed with Irish and Welsh ; still, peculiarities 

 of dialect prevail, resembling generally those of Yorkshire and Lan- 

 cashire. North Staffordshire is by no means rich in monuments and 

 remains of ancient culture. Until the present centuiy it was little 

 known. The higher regions were moorland or forest, and very thinly 

 inhabited. A few so-called Druidical monuments remain, but tumuli are 

 very scarce. Of Roman remains he knows none, except some roads of 

 cross-country character. Biddulph Moor has a peculiar race of inhabit- 

 ants, rapidly dying out, popularly attributed to the introduction of some 

 individual from the East by one of the lords of Biddulph. They are 

 peculiar in physiognomy and in language. There was also a peculiar 

 race, well-nigh extinct, in the moorland near Leek, off the road to 

 Buxton, in a locality known as the Goldsitch mines. There are several 

 fine encampments of British and Saxon times. 



Sheopshiee. 



Place 



Clun . 



Bv ■whom suggested 

 Mr. "Geo. LuflE. 



This village, in the south-west corner of the county, ten miles from 

 the Ci'aven Arms junction of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, and 

 about eight miles from Broome, on the Central Wales line, the nearest 

 railway station, lies sleepily in its own little hollow, encircled by hills 

 1,000 to 1,400 feet high, and out of the beaten track from anywhere. 

 The result of Mr. Luff's nine years' diligent researches is to show a 

 strong and important neolithic settlement, with its centre upon Rock 

 Hill, communicating by a long mountain ridge with central Wales, and 

 protected on the English side every way by a network of formidable hill 

 fortresses. This position was continuously occupied by neolithic men, 

 overlapping the bronze period probably down to historical times. The 

 fusion of race with the Celts may have taken place before the final defeat 

 of Caractacus (which Mr. Luff holds to have taken place at Shrewsbury), 

 but then occurred a great dispersion. The large Roman camp near 

 Craven Arms probably marks the centre of attack by Ostorins, but after- 

 wards one small garrison planted behind Clun seems to have been suf- 

 ficient to keep the remaining hill populations in order. Mr. Luff found 

 no bronze, though outside the ring of earthworks bronze relics are 

 common. The collection of flint and stone implements made by him is 

 declared by Professor Boyd Dawkins to be all neolithic. 



NOEFOLK 

 Places 

 Fishing villages along the coast 

 Ormesby . 

 Brandon . 

 The Fen District 

 The Wiggenhalls 

 Dunwich . 

 Sheringham 



Bv whom siiga-estod 

 Eight Hon. T. H. Huxley. 

 Dr. Beddoe. 



Piev. Augustus Jessopp, D.D. 



Mr. Coutts Trotter. 



Mr. Huxley states that a careful ethnographical survey of the fishing 

 villages along the east coast of Great Britain from Pegwell Bay to Wick 

 would be likely to yield interesting results. Many years ago, when he 



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