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bronze spear heads and celts were found in barrows, and, I 
believe, in Derbyshire. In the 10th volume of the Archaeo- 
logical Institute, p. 691, occurs a notice by Mr. Fowler, of 
Wmteringham, in Lincolnshire, that on the 17th December, 
1 852, a ploughman turned up in a field near Winteringham 
seventeen bronze celts, with three other metallic fragments, 
and that his attention was drawn to them by the plough- 
share sticking amongst the celts, which were all candied 
together. The seams left by the mould in casting were 
imperfectly trimmed — a circumstance which, connected with 
the discovery of metallic fragments with the celts, might 
suggest that this place of deposit was the site where a foundry 
for such objects had formerly been situated; and he also 
states that a chain of barrows extends from the Humber into 
the interior of the country. 
The last fact partially corroborates my supposition of the 
hillock in Mr. Faulkner's field having been a barrow ; and 
the probability of a foundry having been formerly in the 
neighbourhood has also a bearing with the celt under con- 
sideration, to which I shall presently allude. The great 
interest, however, of the example centres in the material of 
which it is made ; from which circumstance Mr. Syer Cuming 
(no mean authority) says, as far as he knows, it may be 
pronounced unique. This fact has induced me to bring 
before the Geological and Polytechnic Society a short notice 
of so singularly rare a specimen, accidentally rescued from 
destruction. Affording, as it does, another instance that 
from the debris of a British or Saxon barrow — the solitary 
grave of a Red Indian — the mounds of Nineveh — or the 
buried cities of Mexico — relics may be obtained which tell 
us, in a language not to be misunderstood, the great progress 
these early people had made in different branches of art ; as 
also the interesting fact, that the same rude wants were pro- 
vided for by the same simple means in the construction of 
