24 SPINK : LAKE-DWELLINGS IN THE VALE OF PICKERING. 
The neighbourhood of Pickering has long been known as a very 
prolific field for antiquarian research, extending as the remains do far 
back into early British times, every step in the process being clearly 
marked ; and we believe the discoveries which are here feebly des- 
cribed, carry the record much farther back into the misty past of 
aboriginal Britain. 
Note. — Since the above was written Professor Boyd-Dawkins 
has visited the site and examined the remains, among which he dis- 
covered several human bones, and these he believed to have belonged 
to a race possessing the power of grasping with their toes. Some of 
these bones had been gnawed by dogs. He declared the find, as a 
whole, to be the most interesting that had come under his notice. 
