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Duke of Bedford has promised the use of Woburn Woods, and 
the Crown Woods in Northamptonshire will also be available. 
Relics of the Stone Age in Holderness. — The tide on 
the Holderness coast has recently ebbed to an unusual extent, 
and a succession of favourable winds have denuded the beach of 
shingle, so that the peat ofT Easington and the neighbourhood 
has been available for examination. A local antiquary, with two 
friends, while examining the peat, found evidence of a colony of 
lake-dwellings. The discovery is most interesting ; and, taken in 
connection with previous discoveries at Ulrome and Sandley 
Mere, in the same neighbourhood, would seem to point to the 
presence of a colony of lake-dwellers in Holderness during the 
Stone Age. 
The peat and clay examined off Easington were of distinctly 
lacustrine type, and 'the dwellings seem to be similar to those 
of Ulrome, with which the finder is conversant. Traces of 
a square platform were distinctly found, and one circular hut 
appeared to have been constructed by driving branches of trees 
down vertically, smaller branches being wattled or woven around 
the piles. There were also a number of large boulders, which 
had apparently assisted in making a foundation. One huge 
boulder bore the marks of glacial striation, most unmistakably. 
No pottery was found ; but the bones of sheep, and it is thought 
the hare, were seen, as well as the shells of a bivalve of the 
scallop type, very like Mya depressa. The sub-structure of the 
dwellings appears to lie nearly due north and south. The 
wattling and wood were as soft as paste and could easily be 
crushed in the fingers. A large tract of peat, which was ex- 
posed, was full, apparently, of the remains of aquatic plants. 
The exact situation was seventy yards from the mainland, and 
some distance south of the village of Easington. Diligent 
search was made for pottery or implements while the ebb tide 
allowed, but none could be found. 
The same party also discovered remains of a “ kitchen- 
midden ” in the cliff near Out Newton. Here oyster shells 
bearing the distinctive mark of having been opened by some 
form of three-cornered implement were found. They were of a 
very early type, and very much perished, more so than those 
found in the middens on the riverside at Kilnsea. One or two 
bits of pottery were found here, and bones of the sheep and ox. 
The layer of oyster shells exposed was about four inches thick 
and about four feet below the present surface. 
