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that the other such places and bricks are evidently belonging 

 to a late culture. 



For instance, there had been found at Quiberon and 

 described by Mr. Le Rouzic, who is known personally to 

 most of us, a very elaborate furnace with a regular grate built 

 in with fire-bars, supported on corbels, which in turn were 

 kept in place by flat bead stones imbedded in the clay. The 

 furnace was also provided with flues and was different in the 

 way it was built up ; indeed there seems to have been only a 

 family likeness between this one and ours, the latter being 

 much more crude. 



A series of hills or mounds exist near the estuary of the 

 River Colne in Essex. These hills are covered by such a 

 quantity of bricks, whole and broken, and clay which has been 

 burnt, that the earth for some feet in depth is red and the hills 

 go under the name of " Red Hills " in consequence. 



In these hills have been found great numbers of broken 

 long bricks like ours but longer, which are thought to be 

 fire-bars. There are, however, no furnaces there, although 

 these hills seem to be the places where the river and marsh 

 clays were collected and burnt. There are hand-bricks also 

 exactly of the same form as we find here at Richmond, Fort 

 Grey, and in this new position. Here again the forms appear 

 to be more developed than ours. 



I shall not discuss the probable age of our find, but will 

 simply say that if we had no other guide but the horizon on 

 which we find it we should have called it late Neolithic. 

 Those in other parts of Europe are considered to be late Celtic. 



Only two weeks ago Mr. Hocart telephoned to me that he 

 and Mr. Le Tissier had discovered, at Sandy Hook, what 

 appeared to him to be stones of a dolmen. I at once 

 arranged with Mr. Curtis and those of our members I 

 happened to see to go out and view the stones. The first 

 visit was paid by Mr. Curtis and myself, and on that occasion 

 we decided that the find was promising enough to work. 



On the second occasion six members came out and we dug 

 out a complete circle of stones. The stones were small — were 

 standing on a natural clay deposit which is common to the 

 whole of the field and were without any cap stones. 



I may say that the property belongs to Mr. Joseph Naftel, 

 and he very kindly granted the Society permission to excavate. 

 The position is called Sandy Hook and a little time ago it con- 

 sisted of large dunes of blown sand, now removed. The sand 

 has mostly been carted off for use in greenhouses and a clay 

 floor beneath the sand has been exposed. This is the clay 



