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and that there was an excellent collection of them in 

 Liverpool, in Mr. Mayer's museum — that antiquaries dif- 

 fered with respect to the use of them ; some supposing 

 that they were weapons, and others that they were 

 implements used by the ancient Britons and other unci- 

 vilized tribes. He di'ew the attention of the meeting to 

 the circumstance that, on each side of the one now ex- 

 hibited, there were some slight attempts at ornamenting 

 it, by small raised ribs or projecting lines ; and that on 

 one side of it there was a bronze loop (which was not 

 uncommon in other celts), apparently intended to suspend 

 it by means of a thong, or string, to the neck or belt of 

 the person who carried it ; all of which showed an ad- 

 vanced degree of sldll in the workmanship, when com- 

 pared with the very rude and ill-shaped celts found in 

 some museums. He observed that moulds for casting 

 celts have been discovered in this country; and that 

 several of them are in the British Museum, in one of 

 which, in consequence of some defect in the casting, 

 there is a celt fast in the matrix. 



Mr. Brooke also stated that the celt now exhibited 

 was found in Northamptonshii-e, and was presented to 

 him last May, when visiting for the second time Bosworth 

 Field, by Mr. John Rubley, of Dadlington Fields, near 

 there, whose kindness, in pointing out the various objects 

 of interest connected with the battle, Mr. Brooke had 

 occasion to mention to the Society, when reading his 

 paper upon the "Field of the Battle of Bosworth." 



Mr. Brooke likewise mentioned, as an interesting cir- 

 cumstance, that the ancient custom of tolling the curfew 

 bell, still existed in some places in Lancashire and 

 Cheshire, and that he had been told that Winwick was 

 one of them ; but that the custom was certainly kejjt up 

 at Wilmslow, in Cheshire. He had had occasion, during 

 many years past, to go occasionally into the neighbourhood 



