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ttat I could never find a day. I now enclose a tracing from the 
Ordnance six -inch map of the district, showing the field where the find 
occurred. We picked up some half dozen small flint flakes, and lots of 
rude pottery. There also seemed to have been iron smelting going on 
in the same field, for there were slags lying about. The sandstone of 
which the field is formed is very ferruginous, and contains nodules of 
impure haematite, and was probably itself smelted as an ii'on ore. 
I will on my return take the earliest opportimity of calling on you. 
"Yours faithfully, 
"A. H. GBEEN." 
And since that lie has kindly taken the trouble to come over 
to Crookhill, and to point out to Mr. "Woodyeare and myself 
the spot where this find was made. (Marked A on the plan.) 
Now first, this coming together of ironstone and slag. It is well 
known that iron-smelting tribes, as they yet do in India, 
extract iron in a rough way from charcoal furnaces, perforated 
with holes to make a blast, in the hiU side. I told you that I 
had visited in ]S"orfolk the famous Weybourne pits. There 
remain on the cliffs between Cromer and Weybourne, dwel- 
lings, in number about 1,000. There are, close by, heaps of 
scoria (here are some pieces of slag which I brought from 
thence, where they may be collected in quantities). How satis- 
factory to find that it is the same in appearance, and has evi- 
dently undergone the same process, as that in the vicinity of 
the pits in this neighbourhood; Yorkshire and Norfolk alike 
giving up for our comparison these evidences of the iron age, 
to teach us how the old inhabitants of this Britain could and 
did extract iron from the stone, and smelt the ore with which 
they made their chariot wheels, when they drove them down 
from the cliffs to discomfit Caesar's hosts, and how they pro- 
cured and worked that iron which they formed into rings 
and used as current coin. Secondly, Mr. Green's interesting 
letter informs us of his find, in the fields above the pits, of 
these flint flakes. In the first number of the Yorkshire 
Archaeological and Topographical Society's Magazine, you 
