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to the Museum for such information as he could still com- 
municate, and received the following reply : — 
“33, Saint James’s Street, 
“ Leeds, 18 th June, 1865. 
“ Dear Sir, — The lead celt referred to in your letter was given to me 
by Mr. Faulkner, of Anwick, near Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, farmer, 
about 22 years ago. I first saw it lying on his chimney-piece, when I 
asked him for it and its history. He informed me that one of his 
labourers found it while hoeing in a held on the farm; — that he had 
previously carted away a hillock in the held and spread it over the land, 
and he supposed this thing had been carted out of the hillock on to the 
land, and afterwards found by the labourer, who struck it with the hoe 
while hoeing, I think he said, turnips. When I obtained it it was so 
thickly incrustated that the metal could not be seen, but my domestics 
cleaned and spoiled it. What Mr. Faulkner meant by 4 carting away a 
hillock,’ was the removal of a hill in the field and spreading the earth 
thereof on the field to level it for cultivation. 
“I placed considerable value upon the celt, as I had not any doubt of 
its being a genuine celt, and it seemed to me to upset the theory that 
celts were used as weapons or axes, and would ultimately lead to an 
inquiry as to whether celts were not insignia only amongst the persons 
who held them. 
“ Anwick is in a very ancient district, on the high ground at the edge 
or brink of the Fens or ancient sea of Lincolnshire, just in the -place 
where you might expect to find things of the highest antiquity. 
“Kynie, the adjoining parish, has produced many antiquities. 
“ Sleaford and the surrounding country is exceedingly rich in geolo- 
gical remains. You have in the Museum some elephant’s teeth found 
there in the gravel ; the bones of the same animal were lying in the 
same spot as the teeth, some of the bones being so large that their 
diameter was almost as much as the width of the workman’s spade 
when he cut them. 
“ I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
“ JNO. GREENE, Solicitor. 
“Henry Denny, Esq., 
Curator, Philosophical Hall, Leeds.” 
With reference to this letter, I will only remark that the 
hillock to which Mr. Faulkner alludes as having been levelled 
in his field, may have been a barrow, and, if so, the occur- 
rence of the celt is at once accounted for ; as Mr. Bateman, 
in his ten years’ diggings, records three instances in which 
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