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a middle-sized, and a small one, and some weapons close to 
them." 
2nd. — "Are the flint weapons and dress- fastenings found 
in all the fields in the neighbourhood ? " 
" No ; only where they can be readily accounted for. Many 
fields have no flint implements upon them, or only stray 
weapons, thrown by the people when hunting." 
Mr. Denny read the next Paper : — 
NOTICE OF EARLY BRITISH TUMULI ON THE HAMBLETON HILLS, 
NEAR THIRSK. BY HENRY DENNY, A.L.S., OF LEEDS. 
To know something of the district in which we reside, the 
historical events of which it has been the theatre, or the 
various peoples and races who have preceded us, ought to 
be subjects of deep interest to every thinking mind. For 
what can be a more interesting or instructive study than 
to compare the present with the past, even as regards the 
various phases in the history of the human family since their 
first occupation of Britain ? 
It is true, much information as to the past is already 
placed on record. But it is equally true that much which 
is prehistoric remains to be collected and collated by those 
of the present generation, or the materials now accessible 
will be irretrievably lost ; and although the surface of the 
country, on the one hand, may have undergone many and 
mighty changes, thus leaving little to mark the actual site 
of memorable occurrences which are presumed to have taken 
place in particular localities, its primeval inhabitants, on 
the other, have left us only their burial-mounds, the sites 
of their Oppida or fortified villages, to indicate the tribe or 
nation to which they belonged; yet even these memorials, 
after the lapse of many centuries, furnish so many faithful 
