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intended for weapons of warfare, but that the specimen before 
us, from its material, appears still to refute such a supposition, 
this refutation may be more imaginary than real ; as my 
friend, Dr. O’ Callaghan, of Leamington, has suggested a 
probable reason for the use of so unusual a metal, which is, 
that it may haye been a trial celt of lead run into the 
matrix before the more valuable metal bronze was hazarded 
for the final operation of casting. To which I may add the 
singular coincidence, that the Dev. W. C. Lucas, F.S.A., well 
known for his extensive explorations of barrows in Great 
Britain and the Channel Islands, suggested precisely the 
same solution of this difficult problem, without being aware 
that a similar opinion had been already expressed. And it is 
somewhat remarkable, and may probably bear on this sub- 
ject, that in draining some land at Winterton, specimens of 
Roman pottery were discovered, in one of which vessels 
thirteen rudely-formed disks of lead were found, the use of 
which was unknown. Might they not have been samples of 
lead preserved for casting celts or objects of a similar kind ? 
Whatever diversity of opinion, however, may exist as to 
the uses of metal celts, that a-s regards those of stone is now 
as clearly established, by collateral evidence, as could be 
required, by one of the most important Anthropologico- 
Arclieeological discoveries of modern times. In the month 
of January, 1863, a magnificent skull of the Bos primigenius 
was found beneath four feet of peat, near the village of 
Beche, in Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, with the frontal 
bone on the upper margin of the orbits broken in, and the 
remains of a flint celt in the orifice. The celt had penetrated 
the skull to a depth of 2f inches, and broken off against 
the inner surface of the base of the skull, the fragment 
measuring three inches in length. Professor C. Babington, 
of Cambridge, to whom I am indebted for a printed notice of 
this interesting discovery, says “ that probably the celt was 
