COLONEL FEILDEN ON STONE IMPLEMENTS IN NORFOLK. 
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I am satisfied that if some plan of this kind were adopted it 
would produce very beneficial results, for I find that in the 
generality of instances the possessors of stone implements are quite 
willing to present them to some institution where they will be 
preserved and made available for the inspection of the public. 
I have a case in point to illustrate this. Here are four fine Celts 
which were found by a labourer named Matthew Humphrey in the 
year 1866. This man was employed in throwing up a dyke in a 
field in the parish of Little Walsingham, not far from Egraero 
farm-house, in the county of Norfolk. About two feet and a 
lialf below the surface he came upon these four Celts which ho 
brought up in the same cast of the spade, from a soil which he 
described to me as a “sort of black gravel.” Thinking them 
curious kind of stones he handed them to his employer, the late 
]Mr. Eohert Overman, tenant of Egmere. 
Two of these Celts passed into the possession of Frederick Long, 
Esq., IM.R.C.S., of AVells, Norfolk ; the other two were retained by 
]\Iiss Overman, who has most kindly placed them at my dispostil 
to desci’ibe, and to hand over to the Norwich Museum. 
The four polished Celts now exhibited belong to Class 3, as laitl 
down by Dr. John Evans, F.K.S., in his work on the ‘Ancient 
Stone Implements of Great Lritain’ (London, 1872), viz., “Those 
wliich are more or less ground or polislied, not only at the edge, 
but over the whole surface.” 
Figure 43 of the same M’ork gives a very accurate illustration of 
this form of Celt, -svhich Dr, Evans considers a common form in 
the Eastern Counties, though not by any means confined to the 
East Anglian counties. Tlie particular interest connected with 
the Egmere find, seems to me to lie in the fact that all four Celts 
belong to the same type, which is the typical one among the 
polished Celts of East Anglia, and that they were found together 
under circumstances which lead us to believe that they were an 
original interment deposited by the prehistoric people who 
fashioned them .and used them. 
The dimensions of the four Celts are : — 
71 inches long, 31 inches wide, and 11 inches thick. 
7 inches long, 31 inches wide, and 11 inches thick. 
6 inches long, 3J inches wide, and 11 inches thick. 
5} inches long, 31 inches wide, and 11 inches thick. 
