FOOD PRODUCTION AND BURIED ANTIQUITIES. ITO THE EDITOR Or THE
" SPECTATOR.") SIB,—This year many thousands of acres of new ground will be broken for the cultivation of grain, roots, and potatoes, and busy spades are now at work over the English countryside. Few people realize how many interesting things, often of priceless archaeo- logical value, lie close under the turf of our old country. Among the treasures that will be found are Roman and Celtic pottery (please do not smash it), bronze weapons, ornaments and tools, coins of every age, flint axes, arrowheads and stone tools of every character. Might I ask readers to make note of our address, and if anything of interest materializes and he or she will kindly communicate with me, I will get it properly noted and recorded. If examples are forwarded, stamps should be enclosed for their return. Will country papers please copy?—i am, Sir, &c., Paeseorr Row. Offices of The Homeland .4ssociation, 37 end 38 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, 11 .0.
[This letter is most wise and timely, and all who care for the priceless relics of our past should help to popularize Mr. Prescott Row's suggestions. We greatly hope that our rural newspapers, great and Small, will be so kind as to reprint this letter.—Eo. Spectator.]
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