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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. regard to the purpose for which these objects were fabricated : an argu- ment might perhaps be fairly drawn from this mould, that they were properly warlike weapons, and not implements for domestic or mechanical uses, the celt being here found in conjunction with objects unquestionably of warlike use. SAXON, OK EAKLY NORMAN PERIOD. Dptails of supposed Sasou Tombs, Crypt, Bedale, Yorkshirp. Sculptured remains of early character, by some accounted Saxon, and bearing much resemblance to the curious crosses at Carew, Nevern, Penally, and other places in South Wales, are found scattered throughout the Northern counties. Of some interesting fragments existing in Durham and York- shire, a notice, accompanied by drawings, has been received from jIr. W. Hylton Longstaffe, of Darlington. In forming graves in the choir of Bedale church, portions of ancient tombs were found, resembling in fashion the re- markable sepulchre existing at Dews- bury <=. The covering of these tombs was formed like a ridged roof, covered with diamond-shaped tiles, overlap- ping one another precisely like the Roman roofing found at Bisley, of which a representation has been given in the Arch geological Journal. One portion, found at Bedale, in the spot now reserved as the family i)urial " See the representation given by Whi- takcr in his Loidis ; a foliated ornament, forniintc ;i repetition of volutes, runs along Srulptured stone and altar, Bedale crypl. the side : at the end, which is formed as a gable, there is a panel, enclosing a cross. 'I Vol. ii. p. Ik