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runic characters, containing the name of Anlaf, king of 
Northumbria, the last of the Danish kings, who was a 
Christian at the close of his life, and who would appear^froni 
this inscription to have died and been buried here, soon after 
the middle of the tenth century, probably in 952. I will 
only add that Mr. Haigh, who is an experienced numismatist, 
especially in the history of the Northumbrians, appears to 
have found traces of a mint at Leeds. 
At the time of the Norman Conquest, the people of Leeds 
and its neighbourhood probably distinguished themselves by 
their resistance to the invaders, and thus merited their full 
share of the vengeance of the conqueror, for much of the 
country around is set down in Domesday as then waste. 
Mr. Denny read the next Paper: — 
ON AN ANCIENT BARROW OR TUMULUS, AND FLINT IMPLE- 
MENTS, FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRID- 
LINGTON, BY MR. EDWARD TINDALL, OF BRIDLINGTON. 
At a Meeting of the Geological and Polytechnic Society, 
held at Barnsley, on the 16th January, 1857, a paper by 
Mr. Thomas Wright, F.S.A., was read " On some Ancient 
Barrows opened by me in East Yorkshire.' ' In this paper the 
particular locality of five Barrows was pointed out and their 
contents enumerated ; as a supplement to that communication, 
it is my object on the present occasion to describe another 
barrow or tumulus I have since had the privilege to 
examine, which presented some peculiarities I have never 
before observed, and which I believe have not been noticed 
by any previous writer on these ancient receptacles of the 
dead. I trust, therefore, a brief description of the above 
will not prove devoid of interest to the members of this 
Society, from the increasing importance of placing on 
record every isolated fact which may serve to illustrate 
