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MR. W. G. CLARKE OX A WEEK IX BRECKLAXD. 
Horehound ( Marrubium vulgar e ) on the slope of Weaver’s 
Close. Two of the commonest plants were the pretty Hare’s- 
foot Trefoil ( Trifolium arvense) and the Sheep’s Scabious 
( Jasione montana). 
Most of the week was, however, spent in the study of 
prehistoric archaeology — ancient trackways, barrows, flint- 
quarries, earthworks and settlements. Only with a portion 
of the results can I now deal. Some of the ancient pottery 
found was of more interest than usual. One piece from 
a settlement on Thetford Warren was grey where it had been 
broken, with a thin coating of pink inside and a thin green 
glaze on the outside, which was ornamented with a double 
row of depressions made by pressing some pointed instrument 
— perhaps a bone — into the wet clay. A large quantity of 
broken pottery was found lying on the surface of Santon 
“ Breck ” at the eastern foot of Bromehill, newly-ploughed 
last winter after lying fallow for many years. The pottery 
was of different periods, some very rough and coarse with 
small pebbles therein probably dating from the Neolithic or 
Bronze Ages. One piece of grey ware has ornamentation 
made by impressing the thumb on a raised band, while 
another piece of the same colour has three incised lines one 
below the other. Most interesting, perhaps, is part of the 
base and side of an urn, in the interior of which some scores 
of tiny pebbles had been impressed when the clay was wet, 
probably with the idea of strengthening it in order to with- 
stand the strain caused by dropping red-hot “ pot-boilers ” 
into the water contained therein. Interesting also were the 
many fragments of undoubted Roman pottery, much of the 
grey being like that commonly found at Caistor Camp and 
Burgh Castle. There are also a few pieces of Castor ware, 
with cream interior, and chocolate exterior, ornamented with 
raised floral patterns in cream. 
Santon “ Breck ” also yielded a number of good flint 
implements, including awls, axes, borers, discoidal implements, 
fabricators, gravers, hammerstones, hollow scrapers, knives, 
scrapers and triangular knives. Two of the triangular knives 
were typical specimens, one having one surface chipped all 
