I24 HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB. 
As to the probable horizon in which the axe occurred, 
there can be little doubt that this was either at the base of 
the warp or on the level of the peat-bed. 
The axe-head is of the flanged form (palstave), is 42 
inches long, 24 inches wide along the cutting edge, and its 
present breadth across the flange is 1g inches. It weighs 
184 ounces. 
Its peculiarity lies in the great width of the flanges, which 
have been bent over, thus forming an incomplete socket on 
each side of the blade. Measuring round the flange from 
edge to edge, the width is 24 inches. The flanges were flat 
or thereabouts when cast, and have been hammered over in 
the manner shown in the accompanying drawing. The 
flanges are much wider than ordinary, and the hammering 
over, as in this specimen, is quite unusual in British axe-heads. 
There is also a decided ‘‘squareness”’ about this implement 
which is not usually found in British specimens. 
A few days ago the Rev. Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., F.S.A., 
kindly showed me his extensive collection of British and 
foreign bronze implements. It did not contain one British 
example similar to the one from the site of the Alexandra 
Dock, though it includes several from France which are 
precisely similar in type. These usually have a narrow 
prolongation of the metal above the flanges. In the specimen 
under notice, however, this has been cut off, apparently with 
a small bronze gouge, examples of which have frequently 
been found. 
This is not the first occasion on which ancient bronze im- 
plements of a French type have been dug up in this country. 
Canon Greenwell has a beautiful bronze halbert-blade, found 
at Kimberley, in Norfolk, of a quite novel type in England, 
but which has occurred in France. A precisely similar one, 
found at Plougrescant, Cétes du Nord, is engraved in 
Mortillet Musée Préhistorique, Plate ]xix., No. 707. Canon 
Greenwell also informs me that a number of bronze socketed 
axes of a purely Brittany type were discovered in the New 
Forest, Hampshire, and are described in Archwologia, vol. v., 
page 114, plate viii. 
(c) On a Roman Vase recently found in North Lincolnshire. 
A short time ago a friend at Barton-on-Humber informed 
me that a small Roman urn had that day been dug up ina 
clay-pit there. On going over I found that a very fine and 
