FOOD PRODUCTION AND BURIED ANTIQUITIES.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter in the Spectator from Mr. Prescott Row, of the Homeland Association, asking that antiquities found during the cultivation of small holdings and potato patches should be sent to the Association for identifica- tion. I most earnestly protest against this. The local museums will be only too willing to report on objects found in their county. If these objects are sent to the Homeland Association, they probably will appear of little value; but at the local museum they may form an important connecting-link with other objects in that museum. If of importance they would be published in the local archaeological journal, and so put on record. Small-holders do not generally take the trouble to send objects by post, but would say: "Oh, il's only an old bit of brass; it's no good send- ing that." They would do much better to take it into their museum, where they might see others like it, be shown what to
look for and to expect, and generally have their interest aroused
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