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IX MILITARY OPERATIONS. 381 found on that occasion in the vicinity of both Roman and Gallic constructions, included, besides the celts with borders bent inYards, and the half of a mould for casting them, celts {corns) of the hollow kind, s})ear-heads, swords, and daggers, and moreover a number of gouges like those used by joiners and cabinet-makers.^ In some of the instances which I have already quoted (See § v.), it has been argued from the fragments of bronze and lumps of metal, apparently designed for the melting- |)ot, that these were the remains of a bronze-foundry. An interesting discovery of this kind was made a few years ago near Amiens, and the objects brought to light, including celts of the usual forms, arc carefully preserved and well displayed in that city as part of the museum belonging to the Society of the Antiquaries of Picardy. For the account of another discovery, no less important, I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. C. Wellbeloved, the Curator of Antiquities to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. In the year 1845 a hoard of celts, very remarkable both for their number (more than fifty) and for the variety of their forms, was found at Westow, a village on the banks of the Dcrwent, in Yorkshire, not far from the site of the ancient Derventio. These articles are now preserved in the museum at York. Besides celts of the usual form, there were bronze chisels, resembling in shape those now commonly used, /. e. with a shoulder projecting all round at the top of the blade, and above this a strong spike made to be inserted into the wooden handle. There was also a mortice-chisel, the form and size of which are shown in the following woodcut. Its edge is only half a centimetre broad, so that it could only have been used to make mortices of a corresponding width ; it may therefore have been a joiner's or cabinet-maker's tool, although it might be useful in constructing military engines, or the furniture of a camp. It is hollow, and has no provision for a rivet. Of this there would be no need, because ithe strokes of the hammer would force the wooden handle downwards into it, so that the more it was used, the firmer would be its attachment to the handle. It is both well-formed and strong, and it must have been a very effective instrument. Other tools were discovered, which, ^ See the account by M. Fillon, in " Mem. de la Soc. des Antitiuaircs de I'Ouest, Poitiers, 1844," p. 4(j")— 481, and plate ix.