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interrupted; and this event appears to explain why the line 
leading to old Bridlington was also left unfinished. 
When we look at the strategical effect of the two 
embankments, running at right angles, we can easily com- 
prehend that the intention was, first, to form strong encamp- 
ments against attack from any quarter, and at the same time 
to command a safe retreat in case of either being carried by 
assault. 
I have mentioned the classes of flint implements that are 
found in this neighbourhood. I have now to describe the 
discovery of several distinct sets of implements, that indicate 
there were different trades established at that early period; 
and, in order to convey to you the expression of my feeling 
regarding their significance, I shall transcribe the notes 
which I made at the time I collected them, which I still 
think are based on correct reasoning. 
I commenced March, 1865. On the left hand side of 
Mr. Robinson's farm-house, if facing Danes Dike, I found 
the whole of the implements of three families, lying on the 
surface in three heaps, only slightly scattered by the plough, 
on the elevated ridges of an undulating field; they are of 
a peculiar reddish-yellow and greenish -black colour. The 
disposition of these weapons appeared to indicate that there 
had been fighting in the field; for, although the household 
implements and tools were lying together, on three sites, 
where I presume the huts of the people stood, the weapons 
were all scattered at a distance from them, round sets of 
implements which, I have strong grounds for believing, were 
dress-fastenings, and which showed that both men and 
women were killed there; and I could not doubt that they 
had all decayed upon the surface without having been buried, 
and that their relics had lain where I found them from the 
day of the fight. As the number that were killed here was 
only small, I conclude it was simply in defence of their 
