holmes: bronze IMPLEME^^TS, ETC., IN THE WEST RIDING. 429 
foremost for execution, and is yet sharp and piercing. A wooden 
stem was fitted into a hollow on each side of it. See Ducatus, p. 565. 
Several similar are in my collection found near Leeds, Morley, &c. 
Thoresby also figures a flint arrow-head of the ordinary size, 
barbed and tanged edges being serrated, and a spear-head which he 
figures about 2 inches long smootlie. He says the latter was dug up 
in a field besides Adel Mill, a Roman station. His tendency was to 
attribute all these to Roman times and uses. 
Thoresby figures a shield (which I think to be British) as Roman, 
with a good description of its construction ; but giving neither time 
nor place of discovery, p. 565. (Very similar have been found in the 
Thames). 
In 17 76, continuing somewhat in the order of time, I direct atten- 
tion to the remarkable find on Mixenden Moor, near Halifax, given by 
Whi taker, in his Loides and Elmete, p. 373. The plate showing the 
celts is an exquisite production of art, but that such a collection 
could be found altogether as described is utterly incredible. For 
granting that which he calls the hone or whetstone and beautiful brass 
celt may be with the gouge British, the maul, and the three arrow- 
heads are Canadian. Whitaker appears to have had them in 1816. 
What has become of them, or where and what they are is deserving 
of more than usual attention. 
For a find of British sepulchural urns, near Halifax, see " The 
Remains of Antiquity of Yorkshire," Leeds, 1855, p. 26, by F. A. 
Leyland, of Halifax, who may be still referred to. In the same work, 
see account of a British Barrow and contents, by Mr. Proctor, of 
York, p. 38- Also, the discovery of a British Dagger and Boat, p. 
39 ; and a British Barrow and contents, at Worsborough, by James 
Wardell, p. 57 and 75, I purchased the objects discovered about 
1854, and they are now in the Leeds public museum. The discovery 
of bronze celts, p. 64. "Account of the discovery of British remains 
on Baildon Common," p. 87. This book is well worth examination, on 
account of its reports of pre-historic discoveries. In the Philosophical 
Hall Collection at Leeds, are several bronze celts found in Yorkshire. 
One well-formed basalt celt is given as found in School Close. In 
1870, while forming the North-Eastern Station at the top of School 
