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connection with the people of these districts, and that is the lug pierced
with vertical holes (fig. 10). This feature, while common to districts of
France and occurring in the Swiss Lake-Dwelling13, is rarely found in this
country and, so far as I know, has not previously been found associated
with remains of the Stone-Age. A few instances of this peculiarity
occur on the British Bronze Age urns, but in almost all cases the holes
for suspension are made horizontally. There is a small and exceptional
group having vertical holes, from Wilts and Dorset, which are in the
British Museum. Instances also have occurred in Cornwall, and recently
a Bronze Age urn, with lugs pierced with two vertical holes, was found
in digging an ancient settlement at Leigh Hill, Cobham, Surrey14.
Dr. Otto Tischler discovered two urns with this characteristic, in a
tumulus in East Prussia, associated with bronze objects of the late
Hallstatt or early La Tene period, and he remarks that it is a very unusual
occurrence at so late a period, as this feature is one which marks the end
of the Neolithic age.15
Much information on this subject has been collected by Dr. A. Gueb-
hard in his paper "Sur les anses multiforees a trous de suspension verti-
caux."16 In this, Dr. Guebhard gives many examples, mostly from
sites of the Neolithic period.
There is, therefore, some reason for regarding the relics from Hullbridge
as all belonging to the same period and that seems, with great probability,
to be the latter part of the Later Stone Age.
Bones from the Peat Deposit at Hullbridge. Identification
and Notes by Martin A. C. Hinton.
Equus sp. Left os innominatum.
Agrees in form and size with that of a Spanish Ass.
Referable to pony or donkey.
Cervus dama. Part of shed antler.
Agreeing in curvature with the antler of the Fallow
Deer and therefore provisionally referred to this species.
13 Lake Dwellings of Europe, Nos. 16 and 17, Fig. 24, p. 115.
14 Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. XXII. pl. 1. The exploration of this site at
Leigh Hill has produced a most interesting collection of pottery fragments, marking the
period of transition from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, down to about the time
of the coming of the Romans. With the exception of the similar find at Shoebury, which
is now in Colchester Museum, perhaps no more instructive discovery of pottery has been
made. Owing principally to the zeal and enthusiasm of Mr. Frank E. Spiers and Lieut.-
Col. Gordon Clark, this collection has fortunately been preserved intact, under the charge
of the Surrey Arch. Soc., in the Guildford Museum. It should receive careful attention
from all those interested in the pre-Roman pottery of this country.
15 Ostprevstische Grabhugel II. Schriften der phys.-Ukon Gesellsch. zu Kunisberg XXIX, 1888.
16 Cougres Prehistorique de France. IVe. Session (Chambery, 1908) pp. 737-768.