During the last two years gravel for building purposes has been taken from a field at Aston Tirrold; and large quantities of pottery of second- and third-century date, animal bones, parts of two human skeletons, and three coins have been turned up by the spade. Below the gravel the teeth and bones of prehistoric animals have been found.

The flint implement which it is the purpose of this note to illustrate and describe was found upon the surface of a ploughed field situated on the top of the cliff, immediately to the east of West Runton Gap, Norfolk. It is made from a honey-coloured flint, in places passing into a putty shade with areas of black staining. So far as its form and flaking are concerned, it is a characteristic ovate hand-axe, thickest at about the middle line, and with a wavy cutting-edge extending round nearly the whole of the periphery of the implement. The drawings and section (figs, 1, 1A, and 1B) here reproduced give a clear idea of the general appearance of the specimen, which weighs 5 oz. and measures in greatest length 3 3/16 in., in greatest width 2 5/16 in., and in greatest thickness 1 10/16 in. The flaking is all to be referred to one period, and exhibits a noticeable amount of gloss. The specimen is little, if at all, abraded, and its flake-scars show one or two striations, but no incipient cones of percussion, while in the interstices of both faces are to be seen patches of a highly ferruginous material containing sand, and occasionally a small amount of grey, humus-like substance is to be observed attached to portions of the flaked surfaces.

The two articles here described were exhibited by the kind permission of our Fellow the dean of Westminster. They cannot be said to be recent discoveries, but have never been shown before to the Society; and they possess enough points of interest to warrant publication (pl. xiv).

Early in this century, probably between 1908 and 1912, an Austrian walked into the shop of a London dealer carrying a hamper which contained from 500 to 1,000 roughly-made agate beads. They were all made from the same sort of agate. This was pale grey to pale brown in colour and banded in narrow straight layers, some of which are nearly colourless and transparent. The Austrian said that he had bought them in Somerset, and either he or the dealer suggested that they might have come from the sale of the belongings of an old sea captain. I have not been able to get any confirmation of this. The dealer put a considerable number of these into Stevens's sale room. Some are shown in fig. 1.