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vessel for melting in, a few moulds, and a certain quantity of 
metal; and it would be the less necessary to carry a great 
quantity of the latter, because those who looked for their 
visits would lay by in expectation their old metal to be used 
again. We find in various parts of England the remains of 
this traffic, and I have given a certain number of examples 
in the paper alluded to. Beginning with the county in 
which we are now assembled, a collection of sixty bronze 
chisels, &c, (the so-called celts), with a piece of a broken 
leaf- shaped sword of bronze, and a piece of bronze which 
appeared to be the residuum from melting, were found buried 
in an earthen vessel at Westow, about five miles from Old 
Malton, which is the undoubted site of a Roman station, and 
not far from the line of Roman road between that place and 
York. A similar collection of bronze celts, &c, whole and 
broken, was found, under similar circumstances, near the 
foot of the Wrekin, in Shropshire, between three and four 
miles from Wroxeter, the Uriconium of the Romans, and 
near the line of the great Roman road, the Watling Street. 
Another similar collection, with portions of a leaf-shaped sword, 
was found at Sittingbourne, in Kent, a town which there can 
be little doubt was a place of some importance under the 
Romans, and which lies on their road, the Watling Street. 
Another such collection, consisting of bronze punches, chisels, 
and other implements, with several pieces of unused metal, 
one of which appeared to be the residuum left in the melting- 
pot, was found at a village near Attleborough, in Norfolk, 
which, also, was no doubt an important place in Roman times, 
and lay on the Roman road between Thetford and Norwich. 
I might add other examples of such discoveries, but I will 
stop to remark, that the first thing which strikes us is the 
circumstance of their being all found in the neighbourhood 
of the Roman towns and Roman roads, which leads us at once 
to the conclusion that the dealers to whom they belonged had 
