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on-Haven, has in his possession a lance- or arrow-shaft which 
was found in. 1887 in Turner’s brickyard. The shaft is 
symmetrically fashioned, gradually tapering from the centre, 
where -its circumference is 34 inches towards the butt end, 
where its girth is 2 inches. It measures 4 feet 734 inches in 
length ; and when found it lay in a horizontal position with its. 
point towards the Humber at a depth of 1o feet from the 
surface and 52 feet from the Humber bank. Whether this relic 
may be attributed to so remote a period as that of the stone 
implements is, perhaps, open to question ; but the fact that it is 
doubtful has decided me to make mention of it. 
Of Neolithic pottery considerable quantities have been forth- 
coming from all parts of the county. r. Skertchley, in his 
‘Geology of the Fenland,’ describes an urn which he obtained 
from the gravel near Bourn. It was made of very ill-worked 
boulder clay, the fragments of chalk being plainly visible, and 
was adorned with quasi-straight lines crossing each other. 
Besides this he mentions several others that the workmen 
destroyed, and which, when found, usually crumbled on being 
touched. Besides these I have obtained many fragments from 
Brumby, Tealby, and Friskney. The Tealby specimens have 
been made of Kimeridge Clay, a formation which predominates. 
in that neighbourhood ; and they are rudely fashioned, roughly 
baked or burnt, and exhibit no traces of the action of a potter’s. 
wheel. The Brumby specimens are still coarser, and as they are 
always in small fragments, it is not Pei even to conjecture 
as to the size or design of the original uten 
Canon Greenwell, who has given ies attention to the 
barrows and tumuli of North Britain, suggests that most of 
the Neolithic pottery is funereal or has been associated with 
burial rites. In connection with this opinion it is interesting to 
note that the urn that was found by Mr. Skertchley, and which 
he considers to be Neolithic, contained burnt bones. Other 
valuable evidences of the funereal ritual of the later phase of — 
the Neolithic Stone Age in Lincolnshire have been forthcoming 
from Grimsby. In the course of some structural alterations at, 
the Central Market National Schools a well-preserved specimen 
of a Neolithic wooden cyst was discovered. When found it 
was about feet in length, but exposure to the air has 
rendered it very friable. It is now in several pieces, and is 
preserved in the school museum. It is a rude ‘dugout,’ and 
it had been roughly hewn out of a portion of a trunk of an oak © 
tree with similar implements ana in a similar manner to that. 
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