The Archive · 1938

Pieces of Pottery

On examination of the floor, the "upper six inches of black earth contained nothing of great interest beyond a number of pieces of pottery of Romano-British manufacture, Some of this pottery may have been derived from the recently discovered kiln site at Torksey in Lincolnshire. A copper coin of William and Mary, and several flattened bullets, and, of course, much modern remains completed the finds in this section.

Below this we came across a layer of red earth, which is often asso-ated with later Palwolithie man's ork in these limestone caves, and this proved to be the case; we found 160 flints, mostly unworked and which had not been used as implements. Numbers of animal bones were present, but mostly of animals "now living or recently extinct: There Was much charcoal, and other evidence of fires having been used, also numbers of quartzite pebbles the size of a fist, which had been used "Sidr pot-boilers, being heated in the and then dropped into pots to food or heat water, "The only other object of interest was a mass of incinerated bones "Which "had been buried at the bottom of the deposits. This mass, probably a cremation burial of the Bronze Age, lw still under examina-

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