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PREHISTORIC REMAINS FROM LINCOLNSHIRE. 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., F. S.A.Scot. 



Referring to the notes in ' The NatiuaUst ' for April, the 

 foUowing iUustration represents two further specimens from 

 Lincolnshire which are in our collection. From the somewhat 

 pecuhar nature of the patina, or oxide, on the bronze axes, I 

 should say that they had been buried in a bed of peat or some 

 similar deposit. Thev were both found together, and were 



Fig. 1 6. 



presented to this Institution by Mr. T. \\. Fullam some years 

 ago. They are part of a hoard found in Lincolnshire, and are 

 queried as from Winteringham. The nature of the patina, 

 however, is totally different from that exhibited on the Win- 

 teringham specimen (fig. 14 on p. 138 of the April ' Naturalist '). 



The example shewn in fig. 15 is a socketed axe, somewhat 

 similar to the specimen already referred to (fig. 14), but it 

 is rather longer, and has a medial ridge extending from the 

 collar towards the cutting edge, though the precise length of 

 this is not clear on account of the thick coating of patina. The 

 axe is 3f inches in length, ij inches across the top, and has a 

 cutting edge if inches long. There is a well-defined ridge at 

 a distance of half an inch from the opening, from which the 



1908 May I. 



