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doi: 10.1144/pygs.7.4.405
In May last (1881), a labourer in digging a trench by the side of an ancient foot-path going from the Carr Moor side, Hunslet, to Beeston Churwell and Morley, near Leeds, at about 10 feet 6 inches deep in clay, came upon a hoard of nine bronze implements. Eight are of the Palstave and one of the Socketed Celt types—all of which I fortunately obtained and now exhibit. In May, 1878, in tunneling under the River Aire at Thwaite Gate, Hunslet, about a mile S.E. of the preceeding, at about 20 feet deep in sand, a well formed spear head was discovered. Again in May, 1846, a discovery of bronze weapons occurred, when excavating on a line of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway at Churwell, a short distance outside the Borough of Leeds, consisting of three spears and five palstaves. An account published in the “Gentleman’s Magazine” stated that there were nine axe and four small javelin-heads, but James Wardell, Esq., Deputy Town-Clerk of Leeds, who investigated on the spot, and who obtained these now shewn, concurs in the statement given above (See “ Historical Notes” 1869). Mr. Wardell also observes that “ Some years ago, a large and heavy Bronze palstave was found in a garden at Morley, along with a gold coin of that period.” (Historical Notes, p. 42, 1869) The Celt is here, measuring as he says, “ Seven inches in length, and weighing twenty-one and three-quarter ounces,” but nothing more being said, the gold coin ...
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