Account of some Antiques, ec. 632 
mentioned the idea of a crooked handle which 
certainly gives them a much greater importance 
as military weapons. It is not at all unlikely 
but that a certain sort of these celts might have 
been used by the Druids of this country, for 
cutting down the mizeltoe from trees, and chop- 
ping it to pieces for their mystical purposes. 
Medea (in one of Seneca’s plays) is repre- 
_ sented cutting roots and herbs for her inchanted 
chaldron with a brazen knife. Pliny says, the 
mizeltoe was cut down with a golden sickle, 
which words I apprehend being taken too literally, 
have been the means of leading more than one 
learned antiquary some years back into a mis- 
take, causing them to introduce into engravings 
the representation of a Druid with a sickle in his 
hand, of the shape used by the farmers of the 
present day ; but as the Druid’s sickle or bill 
has never been described, and no weapon of the 
form of our present sickle, fabricated of the metal 
now denominated gold, has ever yet been found, 
we have reason to suspect the truth of the relation 
as to the metal, and ought rather to credit the celt to 
have been the sickle of the Druid, which was 
made of brass or copper, and perhaps from the 
high price, scarcity and colour, might have 
been esteemed precious and valuable as gold. 
_ No, 10 was found in the summer of 1799, near 
Leigh in this county, and is evidently the head 
