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EARLY MAN was discovered near Corby. Altogether from Northamptonshire about forty British coins have been obtained from twenty different locahties, and they belong for the most part to the central district mentioned above. Prehistoric Man in Northamptonshire and the Places where his several Remains HAVE been found Stone Age Palscolithic Neolithic Late Celtic Earthworks Bronze Age or Prehistoric probably Iron Age Pre- Roman River Drift man Badby Arthingworth (palstave) Brixworth Charlton (Rains- Blisworth Aston-le-Walls (pal- Charlton bro' Camp) Fotheringhay Houghton stave) Cransley Daventry (Bur- Oundle Brixworth Aynho (palstave) Duston rough Hill) Bugbrook Brixworth (sword) Farthingstone Burton Latimer Canon's Ashby (spear- British Coins (Castle Yard) Castor (fig.) head) have been found Hardingstone Courteenhall Castor (socketed celt) at : (Hunsbury) Daventry Corby (knife dagger) ' Brackley Thenford Duston Cransley (cinerary urn) Castor (Arbury Hill) Everdon Dallington (socketed Chipping Eye celt) Warden Finedon Daventry (palstave) Corby Gt. Houghton Desborough (cinerary Dingley Gretton urn) Duston Guilsborough Edgcott (instrument of Earls Barton Harpole brass) Ecton Harrowden Eye (socketed celt) Farthinghoe Irchester Fotheringhay (drinking Gayton King's Sutton cup) Gretton Newborough Marston Trussel Gt. Houghton Northampton (rapier-shaped blade) j Irchester Norton Naseby (socketed celt) Kettering Oundle Oundle (cinerary urns) Northampton Pytchley Peterbro' (socketed celt) Oundle Roade Pytchley (rapier-shaped Thrapston Singlesole blade) Towcester Stoke Bruerne Rush den (socketed celt) Weston-by- Towcester Staverton (palstave) Weedon Twywell Upton Wansford Weldon Stoke Bruerne (palstave) Wappenham (celt) Weldon (cinerary urns) Wellingbro' (celt) „ (3 socketed celts found in 1 871) The writer has purposely refrained from saying much about the Celts on account of the widely divergent opinions held concerning them, but as the term Late Celtic has been so often used in this article, and as it is an expression which has been generally adopted by English archaeologists, it may be well to state that the tall round-headed race of men using bronze instruments, who conquered the small dark-haired Neolithic people of Iberian origin, are considered to be Celts, and that the introduction of iron was due to a later immigration of peoples of the 155