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battlefield near Kirkstall Abbey ; and tbe Rev. Mr. Haigh 
shews that it appears, from a charter in the Monasticon, there 
was at the west end of the bridge at Kirkstall, and nearest to 
Weetwood, a piece of land called Winnet, corresponding to 
Wynnet and Wynnod of two Welsh versions, and to the 
Win wed of Bede. 
So that it appears to me, as far as ancient records and 
traditions are to be depended upon, we have ample evidence 
the battlefield of Gfai, Gfiti, or Witi, was at Weetwood, and 
that the subsequent flight and loss of Penda’s army was in 
the attempted passage of the Aire at Kirkstall. 
It has been asserted, however, that stone implements were 
used in this country so late as the battle of Hastings 
(a.d. 1066), and, therefore, we need not go so far back into 
the past to account for their occurrence or their fabricators ; 
but as Mr. Evans very justly remarks : “ Whoever reads 
William of Poitiers’ account of that battle, will find that his 
words are: ‘Jactant lignis imposite saxa/ which seems to 
imply rather that certain stones were throwm from the end 
of wooden instruments, than that the stones were used either 
as spears, arrows, or lances.” 
The mere fact of stone implements, of whatever kind, 
having been used at the battle of Hastings, does not 
invalidate other specimens having a far more remote anti- 
quity, as, probably, that might have been nearly if not the 
very last occasion on which stone implements were used for 
defensive purposes in England ; and, also, as the employment 
of such implements had been transmitted down through suc- 
cessive generations, their earliest use would be lost in the 
lapse of ages, or might be confined to particular localities, 
which appears to have been the case with some of the Indian 
tribes. In the Proceedings of the American Philosophical 
Society * there is a very interesting communication from 
* Yol. X., 1867, p. 352. 
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