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It is very probable “that the first socketed Celts employed 
in this country, or those which served as patterns for native 
bronze-founders, were imported from abroad.”* ‘The use of 
socketed Celts would, from their abundance, seem to have 
extended over a considerable period; and from their having 
apparently been found with objects belonging to the Late Celtic 
Period they must have been among the last of the bronze 
tools or weapons to be superseded by those of iron.”+ 

Thinking that some illustrations of the earlier bronze Celts 
might add further interest to Mr. Gaythorpe’s paper, and 
with his approval I wrote to Professor Boyd Dawkins—one 
of our Honorary Members—asking him if he would lend 
some of the blocks that illustrated his book “ Early Man in 
Britain,” he replied that they were not in his possession so 
could not do so, and referred me to Sir John Evans, who 
has kindly sent 4 blocks. These I have figured as they appear 
in his book ‘“ Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain.” 
Figure 2 represents a flat Celt found in a barrow in the parish 
of Butterwick, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, by the Rev. 
Canon Greenwell. It lay at the hips of the body of a young 
man. The handle of the Celt or axe head could be plainly traced 
by means of a dark line of decayed wood, and to all appearance 
the weapon had been worn slung from the waist. The blade 
is of the simplest form, modelled on the pattern of the stone 
axe, and may, it is probable, be regarded as the earliest type of 
bronze axe antecedently to the appearance of either flanges or 
socket. Figure 52 is an example of the flanged celt. This was 
found at Chatham Dockyard, and is now in the British Museum. 
Figure 75 is another example of the flanged celt, with the 

* Ancient Bronze Implements,” p. 108. 
t+ ‘Idem,’ pp. 143, 144. 
