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EARLY MAN —Ribbed Socketed Celt from WiNMARLEIGH. 2 : 3. A number of socketed celts are recorded ^ as having been found in the River Ribble, the locality not being stated. They seem to have been five in number, mostly looped. Of these, one was quite plain hke the above, 2 fin. in length, but was provided with a rim around the mouth, to which the loop was attached at one end. The next sketch, fig. 18, shows a difference of feature in the double rim about the mouth of the implement and the three elementary ribs along the length. The blade is not outcurving to widen the edge. Its extreme length is 3! in., breadth at mouth ijin., and across the edge i|in. This implement was found at Winmarleigh with two spears and four other celts, as described in the next section. One other of the celts from the same site is of this character. Quite similar, too, is one found at Walton-le-Dale, on the Ribble near to Preston (in the parish of Cuerdale). This one is 3^ in. in length, with a breadth of ij in. across the mouth and i^ in. across the edge. There is a feeling to the touch that the ends of the decorative ridges are very slightly bulbed, as in the case of the Winwick celt, Plate IV. No. 6. The marks of the casting are quite plain around the sides of the weapon. This celt is in the museum at Preston, and it seems to correspond with that described ^ as having been found at Cuerdale in 1838 by men in deepening a ditch, between three and four feet from the surface, about three or four yards from a spear-head described in the next section. The next figure, fig. 19, shows a third of the Winmarleigh celts, varying from the former examples in the broad outcurve of the sides towards the edge, which is 2 in. across. The rim is i J in. wide, and the implement 2I in. in length. It is decorated, as before, with three plain ribs. It was found with the spear and four other celts, as subsequently described. Three others of the celts from the same site are of this character. The fourth of the Winmarleigh celts is an isolated specimen, distinguished by the sharp recurve of the ends of its outcurved edge, as shown in the annexed drawing, fig. 20. In other respects it is similar to those which have been described, and it is ornamented with the same three ribs along the face. Its length is 3 in., breadth across the mouth i J in., and across the edge, extreme measure, 2 in. Like the previous example it was found in the deposit of two spears and five celts described on p. 236, and illustrated in Nos. 1-7 on Plate V. Fig. 19. — Celt with Outcurving Edge from Winmarleigh. 2:3. Fig. 20. — Celt with Recurving Edge from Winmarleigh. 2 : 3 1 Trans. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. v. 527, 534, with plate. I 233 ^ Arch. Journ. viu. 331-2. 30