COMMUNICATIONS 
TO THE 
MONTHLY MEETINGS 
OF THE 
YOEKSHIEE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
1870. 
January 4th. —The Eev. Canon Eaine said the piece of 
tapestry he had presented to the society had been picked up in 
a mason’s yard. He believed it to be a piece of the original 
hangings in the choir of York Minster. It bore the arms of 
Lord Scrope of Masham^ and he had found an account of some 
hangings in the Minster about the year 1690 or 1700^ and 
the description corresponded exactly with the piece he had 
before him. He should think that that piece Tvas all that 
remained of the old Minster hangings^ which were taken down 
about 100 years ago, and placed in the Deanery. The rev. 
gentleman also explained some encaustic tiles from Fountains 
Abbey and Salley, which were exhibited. 
T. S. Noble, Esq., read the following paper for the Eev. J. 
Kenrick.—At the close of the paper on flint implements which 
I read at our last monthly meeting, I said there were some 
facts which seemed to prove that not only in Europe, but in 
the civilized countries of the East, a stone age had preceded 
bronze and iron, adding that the traces of it were few, hut 
that research once set on foot, these facts would probably be 
multiplied. This anticipation has been verified sooner than I 
could have expected. At the last meeting of the members of 
the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Mr. Boyd 
Dawkins, F.E.S., laid before them a collection of flint imple¬ 
ments, brought by Mr. Bauerman from the turquoise mines in 
the district of Wadi Maghara, long known for the copper mines 
