^{page 459 note a} The latter formed of basalt: one similar to it in shape, but made of greenstone, was lately found by brickmakers, as they were digging for brick earth, at Grimley Ham, fourteen feet deep in the alluvial soil, at about one hundred and twenty-seven yards from the Severn, and within four miles of Worcester. It now weighs eight pounds, five ounces, and a half, but part of its edge has been broken off, of the weight of about two ounces. Its surface is somewhat corroded. There was an appearance as if an old dyke had been buried by the alluvium at the spot in question, which would partly account for the great depth at which the axe lay; for I have, shown in my work on the Antiquities of Worcestershire that the alluvium upon the flats by the Severn at Pitchcroft Ham, near Worcester, and at Bow Farm, in Ripple parish, has only accumulated about four feet since the Roman time.

^{page 461 note a} It was held between the finger and the thumb like those of stone described in Keate's account of the Pelew Islands, 4to. edition. A figure of a bronze metal one is set forth in my work before referred to, Plate II. Fig. 15, therein called a celt.

^{page 461 note b} In Hinderwell's History of Scarborough, p. 310, it is stated that Pickering is a very antient town, and was built, as the English Chronicles inform us, by Perdurus, a British king, who reigned about 200 years before the Roman invasion.

^{page 462 note c} One person called it Bunker's Hill. There is at the foot of it on the western side a fragment of an antient building, said to have been either a priory or abbey.

^{page 462 note d} See account thereof in my before-mentioned work.