.5 feet from the surface, china 4 feet 3 
eres 
aan Note-——Ornithology. 
employed in making the prehistoric boats. It had evidently : 
been used for the same purpose as the Bourn urn. A secon 
cyst was discovered about ten feet below the foundations of the 
Grimsby Parish Church. Of a somewhat later date, but still of es 
a period of great remoteness, if measured in years, are the | i 
cysts that were found near Grimsby Town Station. Three _ 
primitive oak coffins were discovered’ at a depth of about : 
3 inches in length, © 
and exhibiting workmanship of a very rude and _ primitive 
description. One had a cover which had been riven or split 
rom a tree trunk and roughly shaped to fit. 
Archeological research has shown that among the tia 
barrow men of the south of England the practice of burial was 
almost universal ;. but that in the north most of the dead of the 
period were cremated. The former mode of disposing of 
the two methods were practised contemporaneously: In Lincoln-_ 
shire we have evidences’ of both practices. *’Mr. ‘Skertchley’s _ 
find establishes the first: of the second there are’ proofs in the 
hundreds of tumuli that are scattered over'thé county. The 
tumulus is a characteristic of the Neolithic period. Asa rulecit: a 
consists of chambers built up. of boulders or other rough stones 
which were approached by long fan open to the outside, in 
which oftentimes a whole clan was buried. In Western Europe 
in their structure, such as dolmens, menhirs, cromlechs and — 
alignments. 
Stone was not always to be had, and in such cases the bodies 
were laid in the ground in a ‘knees to chin’ attitude, and the _ 
earth was heaped up in mound-like masses over them. It is to — 
this class that the tumuli of Lincolnshire belong ; and it is of & 
these that I propose to treat in my next paper. 
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NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Two Cuckoo’s Eggs laid in one Nest.—On Monday, ~— Bare 
I flushed a Meadow Pipit (Anthus hea hap ) from her nest, wh 
peaialy ‘coucesled neath a whin bush, and found that it eaensin ts wo a 
( three Maidens Pipit’s bar a fourth Pipit’s egg lying a few 
pin from the nest. The two Fd i eggs were of exactly the same — 
size, ‘ithe and colour, and possibly oid cial deposited in the nest by one 
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