215 tyes, which oxydized and expanded, splitting the atone in which they were inserted. 2.-" On the Ancient Flint Implements of Yorkshire, and the Modem Fabrication of similar Specimens." By the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, M.A., }".G.S., &0., Vice~President. Towards the north-western sideof the hillydistrict of Yorkshire, known by the name of the" Wolds," and cut through by the old coach-road from York to Bridlington, are the remains of an ancient intrenchment which once completely encircled, though

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... at some distance, the small village of Fimber. This earthwork, which was perhaps in part planned by the III bIKE W-l-E J=::=':==B~J lAl t:N I)/K£ D!K£ RESTORED PLAN OF rUE INTl\ENCHHENT AT FIMBER, YORKSHIRE. Brigantes,· or an earlier tribe, and subsequently more fully developed by the Romam,t exhibits the signs of much forethought in its construction, • This people, inhabiting the region between the Trent and the Tyne, and descr ibed by Tacitus as being very numerous in population and warlike in ohers cter, were first comple tely subdued by the Roman s about the year 71 A.D., in the reign of the Emperor Vespllsian (Tnc. vitoAgr. 17). A previous and more partial attack on their territory had been also made by the Romans in the year 60, during the reign of Claudius (Tac. ann. xii, 32). + About five years sinc e, some workmen employed in making an excavation at the base of the larger wall of the northern double dike found buried in th e soil a copper coin, much defaced. The coin, which has been obligingly forwarded to me by its owner for inspection, proves to have been one of the very many struok by Oarauaius, during his brief reign as Roman Emperor in Britain, between the years 287 and 293. It is of the" pax" type, lind has on the one side a female figure holding II branch and spear, and on the other II head with a radiated crown, and is much the same in appearance as several referred to in Dr. Btukeley's very curious work, " The MedallieHistory of Carausius," The legend is illeg ible.