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that it could not be gotten up whole, and in Haxey Carr_, at 
the like depth, a hedge with stakes and bindings." — ^p. 141. 
Also at Whittlesea, on digging through the moor " at eight feet 
deep, they came to a perfect soil, and swaths of grass lying 
thereon as they were first mowed. And, moreover, at the set- 
ting down of Skybeck sluice, near Boston, there w^as found at 
sixteen feet deep, covered with silt, a smithes forge, and all the 
tools thereunto belonging, with horse-shoes, and other things 
made of iron, as some that saw it have affirmed to me. — pp. 
177—8. Again, in the year 1635, upon the deepening of the 
Wisbeche river, the workmen, at eight feet below the then bot- 
tom thereof, came to another bottom, which was stony, and in it 
at several distances found several boats that had laid there over- 
whelmed with the silt for many ages." (Dugdale.) 
Bloomfield, the Norfolk Historian, describing Higgenhall, St. 
Mary Magdalen says, " I have seen a memorandum by Gybbon 
Goddard, Esq. Sergt. at Law and Recorder at Lynn, who died 
in 1671, wherein he observes that in his time in digging to let 
down a new sluice a little beneath Magdalen Fall, w^hich is about 
half a mile from Magdalen Bridge on Marshland side, there was 
found about 16 feet within the soil, a gTave-stone of about eight 
feet long, and a cartwheel near to it ; the gi'ave-stone is now in 
Magdalen Churchyard." To return to Dugdale^s indefatigable 
and veracious labours, he writes "near the river Welland which 
runs through Spalding, anno 1696, at the depth of about ten 
feet, there were found jetties (as they call them) to keep Up the 
old river^s bank, and the head of a tunnel that emptied the land- 
water into the old river ; and at about twenty or thirty yards 
distant from the present river there wxre dug up (about the like 
depth) several old boats, on the other, viz. the north-west side 
of the river, and more upwards in the town, were dug up (at 
about the before mentioned depth,) the remains of old tan-vats 
or pits, a great quantity of Ox-horns and shoe soles of a very 
strange unusual form, with sharp-pointed toes turning up," I 
cannot refrain from transcribing a curious note referring to the 
