

By Professor J. BUCKMAN, F.L.S., F.G.S., &g 



N first going over the lands of my present farm I was 

 particularly struck with the fact that in most fields 

 were found some interesting archaic remains. Worked 

 flints, described in the present volume, and rude pottery, took 

 us back to the Celtic inhabitants of the district, while remains 

 of a more refined fictilia with tesselse of pavements, roof tiles, as 

 described in the previous volume, molars, &c., &c., testified to 

 the fact of Roman occupation. 



On breaking up East Hill with the steam plough remains of 

 these kinds were turned up in such abundance that we determined 

 to institute a systematic enquiry into their extent, and so having 

 sent men to work with pickaxe and spade, we now lay the residts 

 before the members of the Club. 



The field of enquiry is one of fifty acres in extent, on the 

 north side of the hiU to the East of Bradford, called East Hill ; 

 the first excavations were made near the middle of the field, as 

 at this point bits of pavement and pottery were met with in 

 abundance on the very surface of the turned-up soil. 



