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their character, are sufficiently distinct for me to describe 
them as being of the common type of gray and white flints, 
and to know that the people who lived there were driven 
from the place after considerable slaughter. Dress-fastenings 
can be found in all directions without difficulty, though most 
of the weapons have been picked up. A large number of the 
implements which constitute my general collection were 
found in this village, and will ever be valuable for their 
description of the forms associated with each colour. 
Returning to the battlefield, we may follow the other line 
of retreat in the direction of old Bridlington, and in this 
instance, as in the former, there is no difficulty in tracing 
the line by the sling-stones and dress-fastenings, which are 
always accompanied by weapons which the persons used who 
were killed and decayed on these fields. They are very 
numerous on both sides of the embankment. When I came 
to the field lying to the right of the road leading to old 
Bridlington from Sewerby, that is beyond and slopes down 
to the farm-house occupied by Mr. Richardson, I found a 
complete set of what I designate coopers’ tools, and with them 
an excellent chisel. They were all made of gray flint. The 
chisel was formed by being first chipped into shape, and then 
rubbed on one side of the edge nearly smooth, showing that 
the maker or user of it knew perfectly what he wanted, but 
at the same time did not understand the mechanical method 
of grinding, and was, therefore, satisfied by rubbing the edge 
on one side only, to make it as sharp as he could. This fact 
proves the great antiquity of the tool. On the slope of the 
hill, about a hundred yards from these tools, I found several 
sets of dress-fastenings, of three each, as usual ; each set had 
its sling-stones and spear-heads lying close around them, 
one of them had a tomahawk, another a small axe, and 
another a large-sized beak ; and having become thoroughly 
acquainted with the character of these relics, their position 
