The Antiquities of the Borough of Leeds: Described and Illustrated (Classic Reprint)

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In the year 1745, a most interesting discovery occurred, of an urn containing ashes, calcined bones, and a stone axe perforated for a shaft, which were found by a carpenter at a depth of about two feet, on sinking a tenter post, in a field near to the top of Briggate, in Leeds. The Inn was of rude formation, imperfectly baked, and ornamented after the usual manner of the Britons, with encircling rows of indentations it measured about twelve inches in height, and was placed with its mouth upwards, having a cover, which was broken by the workman. The whole of these articles were taken pm session of by Mr. Alderman Denison, the owner of the field, who resided near; their subsequent fate is unknown, and their loss as a local one is to be deplored; but fortunately small sketches of them were made at the time, which has enabled me to give the drawings contained in Plate I These relics lay claim to an earlier date than even the city of Nennius, and have appertained to some warrior of the prehistoric period.

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