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it, the ink of which was very faded, saying " Ancient British axe from 

 Leddington, Wilts." And this is all I can find out about its previous 

 history. Leddington should no doubt be Liddington, and the wrong 

 spelling goes a long way to prove its genuineness, as Mr. Goddard 



Section of Stone Celt, showing grooves on the sides, f 

 suggests to me in his letter, but 1 would very much like to know its 

 full history. It is made of a dense hard dark grey sandstone, or grit, 

 foreign to Wiltshire, and is 8|in, long, 2 inches and fifteen-sixteenths 

 wide, and two inches thick. Unfortunately about half the cutting edge 

 is missing, but Avhether this was done by use or not I cannot say. It 

 is in any case an old break. The interesting point about the specimen 

 is of course the groove running down both sides. Apparently the sides, 

 which are Jin. wide in the widest part, were first ground fiat, and 

 afterwards a regular hollow groove, beginning at the cutting edge and 

 dying out about 2in. from the butt end, measuring about three-sixteenths 

 of an inch in width and one-sixteenth of an inch in depth, in the middle 

 of the side, was regularly and carefully cut out. The celt is ground all 

 over. Its faces are not perfect curves, but inclined to be three- sided- 

 This, however, is scarcely noticeable to the eye, and can be more easily 

 felt. Sir John Evans seems to have known of no such grooved celt, nor 

 in answer to my enquiries can I hear of any such at the British Museum 

 or at the museums of Edinburgh or Dublin. I should be very inter- 

 ested to hear of the existence of any other specimens. R. S, Net/ all, 

 Bewley Court. In Mr. Brakspear's paper on Bewley Court (p. 391), 

 there are some mistakes, which I have pointed out to the author, and 

 it seems desirable that the corrections should appear in the Magazine. 

 The time at my disposal will not admit of my going into the matter at 

 any length. 



Bewley Court never belonged either to Edward Baynard or his son. 

 Sir Eobert Baynard. The Inquisitio Post Mortem, to which Mr, 

 Brakspear refers, shows, no doubt, that Sir Robert Baynard held land 

 at Bewley, but that was probably land which his ancestors had held 

 for a considerable time, and it is described as part of the manor of 

 Lackham. It was not any part of the land that came to Edward 

 Baynard, by exchange with Sir William Sharington, for that is 

 described as " divers closes or parcels of pasture situated within the 

 parish of Laycocke, called Denehill, Pennesdowne, the Pyke, and the 

 Lukehorne, containing 217 acres." There is some apparent confusion 



