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driven them into the interior. He said : " The immigrants 
from the Continent who had driven bach the earlier inhabi- 
tants into the interior, were, no doubt, considerably in 
advance of them in civilization, and were the first to introduce 
the art of coining. . ." And again : " With reference to 
the date of the Yorkshire coins there is a certain amount of 
evidence to guide us. Their type is perhaps the rudest of 
all the copies from the prototype, and so barbarous in imita- 
tion of the Philippus as to place them amongst the latest of 
the British coins. The metal is also much deteriorated." In 
other words, they were the last invaders from Gaul before 
the Romans. 
The collection of weapons and implements mentioned in 
this account of my researches are in the hands of Mr. Postil, 
jun., and Mr. G. Anfield, jun., to be handed over to trustees 
that are to be appointed by the Sailors' Club, in Bridlington, 
in order to preserve them for general inspection, and form 
the nucleus of a museum of relics from the neighbourhood. 
They have been preserved for thousands of years, through the 
absence of public curiosity regarding the earliest emigrants 
to this island. I trust the information which they convey — 
that can be found in no history — will induce the present and 
future generations to preserve them as indelible records of 
past ages during the infancy of Great Britain. 
In a discussion which ensued after the reading of the 
Paper, the following questions were asked, and replied to 
by Mr. Ffooks : — 
1st. — "How can you identify the dress-fastenings ?" 
"By their general form, which is not adapted for any 
other use. By there being always a notch chipped out of 
one, or both sides of the neck, to prevent the thong slipping 
that was attached to it ; and by there being always three 
found within the length of a man, of three sizes, a large one, 
