320 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
between each of the four arms, are three balls or pellets. The 
legend is imperfect, but I take it to be ‘ Civitas Eboraci”— 
denoting thatit had been minted in the “ City of York.” Again, 
in the same field, 1 found, on September 5th, 1861, a fragment 
of a human skull, being a portion of the os parietale, well preserved | 
and free from decay. It had been turned up by the plough with 
the light and dry soil in which it had been buried; but how it 
came there and how long it had lain in that field are questions 
not easily solved. In anadjacent close, I had discovered, several 
years previously, many pieces of human bones and skulls, which 
had been dug up at different times, concerning which, I made a 
short communication to the Ethnological Section of the British 
Association, at the meeting at Swansea, in 1848, (Report of the 
Highteenth Meeting, p. 95-96). I therein suggested the pro- 
bable solutions for the presence of these human remains, either 
in the recorded battle against the Danes near Bellingham (see 
Brewster's History of Stockton, second edition, p. 10, and Surtees’ 
History of Durham, vol. 3, p. 144), or in some subsequent fight, 
possibly with the Scots at a later period, when they are related 
to have devastated this part of the country. I picked up, a few 
yards from the small door of Norton church, on January 5th of 
this year, a local token, struck in the memorable year of the great 
fire in London, 1666. It was on the side of the footpath, which had 
recently been dug up and repaired. Its obverse bears the crowned 
head of the king (Charles IJ.) in profile. It looks to the left, 
whilst that on a sixpence of the same king looks to the right. 
Around the head is the legend—‘God save the King.” Its 
reverse presents in the centre, “In Stokton,” and around are the 
names and date, “John Wells, 1666.” This little copper token is 
figured in Brewster’s first edition of the History of Stockton, 1796, 
No. 3, and an accurate representation it is of the size of the token 
and of the very bad and rough execution of the profile; and the 
“long hair—a la Cavalier,” as Surtees writes, is indeed a woeful 
design of the beautiful and flowing locks of that ‘lively and en- 
gaging” monarch’s head-dress. “In the reign of Charles I.,” Mr. 
Surtees observes, that in “Stockton, only one tradesman deemed 
it expedient to issue his promissory pence.” (Vol. iii., p. 182.) 
John Wells himself was doubtless a tradesman in Stockton, and 
