516 COLONEL FEILDEN ON STONE IMPLEMENTS IN NORFOLK. 
XVI. 
NOTE ON STONE IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN NOEFOLK. 
By Colonel H. W. Feiluen, F.G.S. 
Read z'jth October, 1887, 
It is with considerable diffidence that I offer to trespass on the 
time of the meeting this evening, but with your permission I will 
make a few remarks on a subject which I do not think has 
hitherto been so fully recognised by our Society as, I venture to 
think, it might be. 
Our county is especially rich in the implements used by the 
prehistoric races that once lived upon its soil. No systematic 
attempt has hitherto been made to collect these interesting objects 
for preservation in the Norwich Museum, where they would be 
available for the specialist and the public at large. 
In some parts of the county one can scarcely examine a heap of 
stones collected from off the fields without finding amongst them 
some bearing evident marks of human workmanship. Year after 
year this clearing of the fields from stones goes on, and the heaps 
collected are used as road metal. 
This process of clearing the land of surface flints must yearly 
lead to the destruction of a large number of stone implements. 
Very often fine specimens of stone axes, hammers, &c., are found 
by the labourers, and in some cases kept as curiosities, but more 
generally are thrown away. 
I venture to suggest that it would be a good plan for our Society 
to draw up a short paper on Stone Implements, illustrated with 
a few typical forms, and have this tract distributed amongst the 
landowners and farmers of the county, with the request that future 
finds may be deposited in the Norwich Museum. 
