428 holmes: bronze implements, etc., in the west riding. 
to shave a solemn priest. The stone is of bliieish grey stone, scarce 
an inch in thickness, though three h)ng. There were also certain 
bone instruments mostly decayed to ashes, the ends of which were 
bored through the same size of holes as the lance and stone are. Use 
unknown, tapering like a bodkin to the end quarter of an inch. For 
some further but uncertain discoveries and objects see p. 567. For 
such objects and there bearing see Evan's Stone Implements, pp. 173, 
187, &c. &c. 
For a somewhat similar discovery, James Wardle, Deputy Town 
Clerk, Leeds, registers that of a British urn in 1745, dug up in a field 
at the- top of Briggate, Leeds, about 2 feet deep. It contained 
calcined bones and a stone hammer (size and weight not given), but 
fortunately drawings were preserved, and figured by Wardell in his 
Antiquities of Leeds, 1853, plate 1. The urn was of rude formation, 
and imperfectly buried, ornamented in the usual British manner 
with encircling rows of indentations. The urn was about 12 inches 
in height, mouth upward, covered by a stone. The whole taken 
possession of by Aid. Denison, the owner of the field, and now com- 
pletely lost. 
The urn appears in both shape, size, and ornamentation to be 
not uncommon in Yorkshire, and the hammer is similar to two 
others, which Mr. AVardell had in his collection, which I purchased in 
1860, and transferred to the Corporation of Leeds, 1882. 
In the year 1709 Thoresby registers "the digging up of five or 
six brass instruments ploughed up in Bramham moor by the servants 
of John Ellis, of Kidd, Esq. They are of different sizes, from little 
more than 3 to 4^ inches in length, and from 1 to 2^ in breadth. 
They are somewhat in form of a wedge, from a thin sharp edge to Ij 
or 2 inches at the thicker end, where they are hollowed to put upon a 
shaft, each having an ear or loop." This is a common form of bronze 
socketed celt, of which I transferred several to the Leeds public collec- 
tion. 
Thoresby also figures another and earlier (?) form of bronze celt, 
dug up in the grounds of Ambrose Pudsey, of Bolton juxta Bolland, 
Esq., whilst making a fence near the moor, now called Monnebents. 
This is 7 inches long and 2^ broad at the edge, which is placed 
