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English Monasticism, by Abbot Gasquet ; Ancient British 

 Shrines, by Mr. J. C. Wall ; The Castles and Walled Towns 

 of England, by Dr. Harvey ; English Seals, by the Rev. J. 

 H. Bloom ; and other works of a similar character. 



The Rowarth Celt. — By the courtesy of the owner, Mr. 

 Abner Froggatt, we are now enabled to give an illustration 

 of this remarkably fine specimen of a polished stone axe. Its 

 discovery was described on page 172 of our last year's Journal 

 and little more need now be added. Professor Boyd Dawkins, 

 F.R.S., is of opinion that it is of igneous rock, possibly Andesite 

 or Andesitic ash, as such it probably came, either as an 

 " erratic "' or in its present form from the Lake district ; and 

 curiously enough, the celt most similar to it amongst the illus- 

 trations in the great work on early stone implements, by Sir 

 John Evans, is one which was discovered in Cumberland. In 

 Derbyshire he only records the discovery of one i^olished 

 example, namely, at Hopton, and none illustrated by him seem 

 quite equal to this in their symmetrj' and finish. 



Excavations at Arbor Low and the Discovery of the 

 . Remains of a Mastoden at Dove Holes. — The insertion of 

 these two papers in our Journal has to be postponed, lest they 

 should forestall the claims of the societies primarily entitled 

 to the publication of the results of the explorations, and which 

 have not yet appeared. 



Our Illustrations. — Members are mainly indebted for the 

 increase in the number of these to Mr. Victor Haslam, a 

 member of the Council of the National Photographic Record 

 Association, who has generously placed his art and his camera 

 at the service of the Society, with the results shown in the 

 photographs of Bradshaw, Norbury Church, and its Saxon 

 crosses. Mr. G. Le Blanc Smith has kindly contributed the 

 photographs of the early fonts ; Mr. Gould has furnished the 

 plates for his paper on Carls Wark ; and, as previously 



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