406 HOLMES : DISCOVERIES OF BRONZE IMPLEMENTS. 
excavating on a line of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway at Chur- 
well, a short distance outside the Borough of Leeds, consisting of 
three spears and five palstaves. An account published in the 
"Gentleman's Magazine" stated that there were nine axe and 
four small javelin-heads, but James Wardell, Esq., Deputy Town- 
Clerk of Leeds, who investigated on the spot, and who obtained 
these now shewn, concurs in the statement given above (See 
" Historical Notes " 1869). Mr. Wardell also observes that 
" Some years ago, a large and heavy Bronze palstave was found in 
a garden at Morley, along with a gold coin of that period." 
(Historical Notes, p. 42, 1869) The Celt is here, measuring as he 
says, " Seven inches in length, and weighing twenty-one and three- 
quarter ounces," but nothing more being said, the gold coin, I 
think is doubtful. 
In the collection of the Leeds Philosophical Society there is 
a Bronze palstave, marked Churwell, exactly like these of the 
Hunslet Carr types. 
While making a lock for the Canal of the Aire and Calder 
Navigation, about 5 miles N.E. of Wakefield, one of the most 
beautiful Bronze Daggers known was discovered at 22 feet deep, 
beneath silt containing oak-trees, gravel, sand, and soil. This was 
in 1842, and is further interesting from the fact, that in 1818 at 
Stanley Ferry, only 2 miles above where the dagger was found, a 
Canoe boat made from a solid oak, was found, the remains of which 
may now be seen in the Ethnological room of the York 
Museum. Still further south, 5 or 6 miles, at the other side of the 
Calder, in ploughing a field at the base of the hill upon which 
stands the Castle of Sandal Magna, a very interesting type of 
Bronze Celt was found about the year 1852. 
The above list is very far from complete, and only given to 
shew the extensive distribution of the Bronze Implements in this 
portion of Yorkshire. 
Reverting to the positive evidences before us, and taking 
