A Brass implement, found in a bog, on the estate of the donor

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 101

Additional Source Text:

"(Wood hall Park near Askrigg Yorkshire) supposed to be a tool used by the Druids in cutting the Misseltoe from the Oak, in their religious seremonies."

National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia), 28 Aug 1821 reads: "Roman Spear Point, found on the estate of the donor in Yorkshire, England."

Notes:

John Beezon Baynes (1771-ca. 1847), a native of Yorkshire, England, sold Wood Hall Park in 1818 and moved to America, first to Wilmington, Del., and then to Baltimore. P. W. Streets, Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and His Descendants (Philadelphia, 1896), pp. 254-255