Mr. Soper is Assistant Director of the B.I.H.A.E.A., and is in charge of the Bantu Studies Project of the Institute. He has been carrying out a survey of Iron Age sites in south-eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. The identification of pottery related to Dimple-based ware near the coast, and the early radiocarbon date associated with it, represents an important step forward in our study of the Early Iron Age.