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Ipswich, Dunham, etc., are interesting relics of ‘the 
pre-historic farmer and herdsman, who everywhere 
commenced the story of civilization. ‘These people 
co-existed with such wild animals as the _ beaver, 
Alpine hare, brown bear, grisly bear, elk, urus, and 
wild boar, and had domesticated the dog, horse, 
sheep, goat, shorthorn, and hog. ‘They had so far 
advanced in the manual arts that they fashioned a 
rude kind of pottery, spun and wove coarse fabrics, 
and cultivated cereals. At Weeting, near Brandon, 
there are some hundreds of hollows which have been 
proved to be filled-in shafts leading to galleries in the 
chalk, from which these Neolithic folk obtained a 
specially fine pure form of flint, readily workable 
into weapons and implements. In a wall case may. 
be seen an example, illustrating how these imple- 
ments were fitted to a handle. 
The age of Bronze, succeeding that of Stone, is” 
illustrated by some admirable examples of bronze 
weapons and implements found at Thetford, Meth- 
wold, Stibbard, etc. This bronze age dates back to 
a period long preceding the Roman occupation of 
Britain, though it is probable it extended, with a 
continued partial use of polished stone weapons, far 
into the historic era. 
The cases containing these ancient relics of the 
dawn of civilization, showing that the fighting man 
and the hunter always precedes the cultivator and 
the cattle raiser, are arranged in proper sequence, so 
that the visitor has no difficulty in discerning at a 
glance the characteristic works of the successive ° 
stages of early human progress, anterior to the 
invention or introduction of letters. 
A fine collection of Roman antiquitics, found 
Principally in Norfolk, shows that a high civilization 
was introduced into Britain by force of arms among 
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