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intendent, who immediately recognized the great similarity 
it bore to some of the beautiful examples of flint implements 
in the Art Treasures Exhibition, then open in Leeds. He 
therefore stimulated the boys by a trifling reward to a more 
careful search, and the specimens since found he has 
presented to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and 
Literary Society, with the exception of one very beautiful 
arrow-head, of broader shape, which is now in the posses- 
sion of Mrs. Eddison, of Adel. 
In the year 1867, a flint flake, with bevelled edges, was 
also picked up in the same locality by the Bev. B. J. 
Mapleton, who instantly perceived the interest of so trifling 
an object in an archaeological point of view, and gave me the 
specimen. From the limited space in which they have all 
occurred, it would appear to have been the site of a manu- 
factory of these rude implements to meet some anticipated 
emergency, the material for which has evidently been 
brought from a distance, as we know that geologically flints 
cannot have occurred at Adel or anywhere in the neigh- 
bourhood of Leeds, situated as it is on the coal- formation, 
with its accompanying sandstones and grits. The nearest 
point, therefore, at which they could have been obtained 
is the chalk districts on the H.E. coast, as Scarborough, 
Bridlington, &c* 
It is very probable that many other specimens may have 
been turned up during the enclosure of the moorland at dif- 
ferent periods, for as early as 1715, Thoresby figured in his 
Musceum Thoresby anum two flint arrow -heads, which were 
found near Adel mill . One has a tang and barbs, the other 
acutely ovate, precisely like some found at Bridlington, by 
Mr. Tindall, and therefore probably the productions of a 
* What adds to the probability of their manufacture on the spot is that not 
only considerable numbers of flint cliippings occur, but also the flint cores from 
which they had been struck. 
