BOYNTON": BRONZE IMPLEMENTS IX EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 427 
Type. 
114 
499 
Name of 
Object. 
Locality. 
Socketed Celt 
Button 
Lake-dwell- ISSi 
iujr, Ulrome 
Date. 
Bannstoii 
Near Bever- 
ley 
Ear-ring - North Burton 
Bracelet - Near Bever- 
ley 
188G 
Previous 
Descrip- 
tion. 
Where I T^„„ti, 
Deposited. ^"^^ 
2.^ in. 
1 in. 
diani. 
Remarks. 
Appeared to have been 
struck into the floor of 
the structure and 
broken from the shaft; 
a portion of the shaft 
(with the pin) yet re- 
mains in it. Caught 
by the workman's i 
spade and broken. | 
Found embedded in peat j 
near the supposed site i 
of a lake-dwelling The 
top of the socket has ' 
been imperfectly cast, 
and it is filled' with 
fragmentsof metal pre- 
paratory to re-casting. 
The loop spans the en- 
tire diameter, and is 
bow shaped. Plain, 
increasiugin thickness 
downwards; circular. 
The bracelets are made 
of wire, plaited, and 
were purchased from 
Mr. Sumner's collec- 
tion, Woodmansey, 
Beverley, described 
as being found in the 
locality. 
NOTES ON DISCOVERIES OF BRONZE IMPLEMENTS, ETC., IN THE 
WEST RIDING. BY JOHN HOLMES, ESQ. 
I assume that objects of known Roman make, either in pottery 
or metal, will not be deemed pre-historic, although made or used before 
being registered in historic times. But I think that objects evidently 
native or British may be classed as pre-historic, even when used by 
the Romans or in historic times, with that understanding I place 
first from Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 565, the discovery of a 
British urn, 10 inches in diameter, in which was " a brass lance, a 
stone to sharpen it, and a mallet's head, of spreckled marble, polished 
6 inches in length, 3| broad, and 7 in circumference. It was dis- 
covered in the field of Stephen Tempest, of Broughton, Esq." 
Thoresby describes it as very artificially done, as if it had been a 
Roman improvement of British work. For his desertation and further 
suppositions see Ducatus, p. 566. The lance he describes as of brass, 
scarce an inch broad, and by its tapering 3 inches long, sharp enough 
