about four inches thick. They are connected at their bases, 
except on one side, by a low rim about an inch high ; in 
the longest side of which are two holes, capable of admitting 
a cord or thong. The dish was a long oval, four or five 
inches deep. In the edge of ono side are two holes, answering 
exactly to the holes in the table. From these particulars, it 
may be inferred that the table was used by persons who 
squatted on the ground, and that the dish, when not in use, 
was attached to the table, so that both could be carried away, 
slung over the back. The workmanship of these primitive 
utensils is rude in the extreme, and indicates a low degree of 
civilisation in the people who used them/' Now, what was 
the probable condition of the poor owners who had evidently 
lost these utensils ? They had been, most likely at the time, 
squatting over their little autumnal gathering of hazle nuts, 
the provident horde for their precarious winter's subsistence. 
Possibly they might have been indulging in hilarious enjoy- 
ment, at this primaeval harvest home, when their happy 
laughter was suddenly interrupted by the bounding rush of 
some ferocious carnivorous beast, attracted to the place by 
their incautious merriment. How changed is the aspect of the 
country where such a horrible scene must have been of fre- 
quent occurrence. The gigantic forest trees have grown and 
fallen, and grown again. The hazle thicket, with its bountiful 
crop of winter fruit, has withered, decayed, and grown over 
and over again, upon that interesting spot, until after the 
long lapse of unrecorded centuries, the accumulation of dead 
vegetable matter, even by the pressure of its own weight, 
has been Ibrmed into a dense mass of peat several yards 
in depth. 
I shall now pass on to the most interesting phase of our 
pre-historic condition ; the period intervening between the 
introduction of the metallic arts and the Roman invasion. 
Although we are frequently told that the Britons, at the time 
