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Charles Lewton Brain was brought up in Swanton Morley, Norfolk and educated in King’s Lynn. After service in World War I he spent the rest of his working life in a London bank, but when retirement finally came in 1947 he returned to Norfolk, to Heacham, met Ivan Thatcher, a keen amateur archaeologist, and soon developed an enthusiasm for archaeology that lasted the rest of his life. The articles in this book, first published in the Eastern Daily Press in the 1970s, are chiefly the fruits of reflection on the absorbing activities of his years of retirement, but there are also some vivid memories of Swanton Morley and King’s Lynn at the turn of the twentieth century, while later articles cover a great variety of subjects, from ancient roads to iron-smelting, early maps to herds of heifers, dewponds to Egyptian beads and many more.
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