46 REMINISCENCES OF 



old fellow had obviously never needed the services 

 of a dentist. Amongst other objects found in the 

 coffin were a bronze spearhead, three flints, and two 

 beautifully worked bone objects. One of these was 

 a pin, and the other apparently part of the handle 

 of a dagger or knife, which had evidently been 

 fastened to the end of a wooden shaft by three pins, 

 which had passed completely through both the bone 

 and the wood. 



Soon after this discovery was made, it was 

 intimated to me by some of my friends that it was 

 my duty to write an illustrated account of the matter. 

 This I did to the best of my power, though the under- 

 taking of such a task by a youth, who had not yet 

 reached his eighteenth year, was rather appalling. 

 However, the thing was done, and the memoir 

 published at Scarborough before the end of the year. 

 It happened that shortly after this pamphlet appeared 

 the late Professor Buckland paid a visit to the town 

 and obtained a copy of the memoir, with which he 

 seemed to be much pleased ; but I heard no more of 

 the matter until the weekly issue of the Literary 

 Gazette for October i8th, 1834, was forwarded to 

 me by some unknown hand. On opening the 

 number I found that, unlike its usual form, nearly an 

 entire half had been devoted to the recapitulation of 

 part of my archaeological bantling, and the number 

 for the succeeding week contained the repro- 

 duction, in like manner, of the remaining half. 

 No mention was made of how it reached the editor's 



