LOCAL ARCHZOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By Tuomas SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 
(2) On a Bronze Mould and a Hoard of Bronze Axes found 
at Hotham Carrs, East Yorkshire. 
INCE the publication of an account of the various finds 
. of bronze socketed axes, found in Holderness, which 
appeared in our last year’s Transactions,* the Rev. 
Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., F.S.A., has kindly ient, for 
exhibition to our members, a portion of the contents{ of a 
large hoard of bronze flanged axes, and the two valves of a 
mould of the same material, found at Hotham Carrs, near 
North Cave. As a detailed account of this find has not 
previously been published, and it is to some extent of an 
exceptional nature, the following notes thereon may be of 
interest. 
The hoard was discovered in 1867 where it had been de- 
posited by its original owner, on Hotham Carrs farm. The 
various articles were all found together,} and had apparently 
been hidden away and not again unearthed until accidentally 
discovered by the plough several centuries after they were 
buried. 
In his excellent work .on ‘British Barrows” (1877), 
Canon Greenwell states (page 47) that many of the hoards 
of implements found in this country ‘‘seem to have been 
collections of damaged and broken implements, gathered 
together for the purpose of being recast.’’ The Sproatley 
hoard, referred to in our last Transactions, was evidently 
such a collection, as nearly all the axes were cracked or 
otherwise imperfect. The specimens from Hotham are 
similarly defective. There are in all seven axes, all of the 
flanged or ‘‘paalstab”’ type. The largest, which is perfect, 
* Vol. I., Part Il., 1899, pages 52-54. 
+ The greater portion of this hoard was sold to a rag and bone dealer, 
and subsequently to a brass founder in Hull and destroyed. 
~ Canon Greenwell possesses another celt from Hotham ; it was not 
part of this hoard however, and though a “‘ paalstab,”’ is of a different type 
from those under notice. 
§ Similarly, the Sproatley hoard consisted of 35 celts, but with one 
exception all were of the socketed type, the exception being a ‘‘ paalstab.” 
