FOOD PRODUCTION AND BURIED ANTIQUITIES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
" SPECTAT02."] SIR,—I am obliged to you for inserting my letter, as it appears to have been productive of -useful results. Since it appeared a Roman coin has been sent to me from Liverpool, and an inter- esting find of pottery and worked flints has been revealed in a potato patch at Carshalton. In each case a report was made at once to the respective authorities at the British Museum, and in the case of the flints to the Croydon Scientific and Natural His- tory Society.
I am, however, very pleased to see the note from Mr. R. S. Newell, F.S.A., though I am certainly perplexed that he should think that the Homeland Association, after twenty years of faithful work on English topography, should have so little appre- ciation of the importance of the very antiquities that I am anxious to have recorded. I hope, however, that he will repeat in the Wiltshire papers the tenor of his letter to you, and by so doing help the work along, and I trust that the curator of every local museum that takes itself seriously will do the same thing. It was because I saw no guidance being given to those who stumble upon discoveries that I ventured to address you.—I am,
Bir, &c., PRESCOTT Row. 'The Old House, Waddon, Surrey.
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