cole: LAKE-DWELL1^'G RECENTLY UlSCOVERED AT PRESTON. 01 
beyond seven yards, as evidently portions of the platform had been 
removed in the excavations. The appearance was exactly similar to 
the upper platform discovered by Mr. Boynton in Holderness, and I 
have little hesitation in assigning it to a lake-dwelling. The struc- 
ture was erected in a marsh, distant about 100 yards from the present 
bed of the river. There were no traces of weapons or implements of 
any kind, but this may be accounted for by the fact that the navvies 
had no instructions, and no one in authority noticed what they were 
destroying. In the area of the unhnished dock, however, as I learn 
from the curator of the Preston ^luseum, the Rev. J. Shortt, no less 
than 52 pairs of antlers of the red deer have been found, 43 heads of 
the urus, 14 human skulls of the type found in our tunndi, two 
ancient canoes hollowed out of the trunks of trees, and a solitary 
bronze spearhead. No Hint or pottery seems to have been discovered. 
Mr. Shortt has kindly promised to have the section pliotogTaphed 
before the works are resumed ; but it would be more satisfactory if 
the piles and brushwood could be carefully examined by competent 
persons, instead of being left to casual demolition. Doubtless there 
were many lake-dwellings once in this country, as in Switzerland, but 
so far, with one or two exceptions, they have escaped notice. 
Wetwaug, October 4. E. Maule Cole. 
ON THE INVESTIGATION OF BRITISH BARROW^S NEAR HUNMANBY, IN 
THE EAST RIDING. (BRIDLINGTON GAZETTE, DEC. -STH, 1888.) 
The Rev. Canon Greenwell, whose labours for some years past in 
opening barrows in the North and East Riding of Yorkshire have 
aroused so much interest, has, for the last three or four weeks been 
engaged in opening a group consisting of five, situated on one of the 
highest and bleakest part of the Yorkshire Wolds, a few miles west- 
ward of Hunmanby and Filey, and about 600 feet above the sea level. 
The group referred to is on glebe land in the parish of Folkton, whose 
rector, the Rev. H. Blane, very kindly accorded the Canon permission 
to examine as he desired. ^ Similar permission was also given to him 
by the Rev. Edward Mitford, of Hunmanby, and John W. Woodall 
