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186 defaced. The east part of the north chancel-aisle is separated from the rest by a stone wall; it is approached by a small door in the chancel, and in the wall separating it from this part, north of the altar, is an altar-tomb, robbed of its effigy, and placed under a trefoiled recessed arch which has a crocketed pediment terminating in a finial; a little to the right is a bracket for a lamp. The chapel itself now serves as a vestry, and in it are a bracket high up in the south-east corner, supported by a frog, and an ambry in the west wall. Probably the recess behind the tomb was open to this room, as founders' tombs frequently are. Near it stands the font, which is octagonal.

In the east window are two shields of stained glass, one of which exhibits the Mowbray arms; also three designs in the shape of shields, made up of fragments. It is said that a great portion of the glass of this church served to decorate a library near Wakefield. The window was, within memory, nearly filled with painted glass before it was cut down. In the churchyard is a stone pedestal, very plain, now surmounted by a modern dial; this appears to have formed part of a monumental cross.

Mr. Samuel Birch communicated a notice of some ancient objects discovered in Ireland, accompanied by representations designed by Mr. J. Fitzgerald, of the British Museum. They form part of a large collection of Celtic antiquities, consisting of stone celts, arrow-heads, and knives of pyromachous silex, with some stone beads, and metallic celt-heads, found chiefly in the counties of Tyrone and Antrim. These remains were collected by Mr. Flanaghan, a gentleman attached to the Irish survey, and were acquired, in the year 1844, by the British Museum. The hook-shaped bronze implement, of which a representation is here given, appears to be a kind of falx, or pruning-hook. It measures four inches and three quarters from the extremity of the blade to the back of the socket, into which the handle was inserted, and fixed by a rivet. This object was found, at the depth of six feet, in a bog, in the vicinity of the mountain-range, two miles east from Ballygawley in the county of Tyrone. In the Dublin Penny Journal, vol. i, p. 108, Mr. John O'Donovan has given, as an illustration of his remarks on the antiquity of corn in Ireland, a woodcut which represents "one of the ancient bronze reaping-hooks so frequently found in Ireland, and which, from its material, must be of the most remote antiquity." This implement measures about six inches in length, the curved blade appears to be double-edged, and bears a general resemblance to the hook preserved at the British Museum, but the socket for receiving the haft is somewhat different, not being formed with a shoulder as in that specimen.

In the same collection is to be noticed a singular object formed of bronze, the use and intention of which it would be difficult to characterize; it is in the form of a crescent, and measures five inches in diameter; it is perfectly