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will be seen, but it was sufficient to prevent me from obtaining a 

 perfect knowledge of the floor structure and system of sepulture. 



However, I should say that in the front part the top layer 

 consisted of shells and greyish ash; next, shells, loose black soil 

 and ashes; and last, hard black soil and shell fragments. At 

 certain points below the top layer old fire-places occur, represented 

 l)y large beds of almost pure ash, great handfuls of which may 

 be lifted out. It was beneath one of these beds and above the 

 hard black soil that I discovered the first human bones, probably 

 those of a well-grown male. The skeleton was far from complete. 

 One reason for this of course is that many of the missing bones 

 had decomposed, but judging from those recovered, there are 

 other bones which, I think, must have been removed as I have 

 previously suggested. For instance, the malar bones, superior 

 maxillary bones and teeth are perfect, but no trace was found of 

 the remainder of the skull. The bones of the pelvis are missing, 

 as also are one humerus, one radius, one clavicle, nearly all the 

 vertebrae, the scapulas, and greater part of the ribs, together with 

 nearly all the small bones of the hands and feet. In fact the 

 bones recovered were principally the large bones of the limbs, and 

 several of these even were broken. 



Under such circumstances it was impossible for me to determine 

 satisfactorily in what position the body had been interred, but as 

 all the remains were found within a radius of about two feet, I 

 believe the lower limbs must have been drawn up and the corpse 

 buried in a bundle with the head to the east. 



before removing any of the bones, but where thegrouud has been disturbed 

 the bones also are scattered. So in the case of the adult skeleton dis- 

 covered by me right alongside a trench such as I liave just described, 

 important bones are missing which were probably thrown out in digging 

 the trench without a well-directed effort being made to recover the 

 remainder of the skeleton. The orientation of the body is likewise difficult 

 to decide, and, where the old layers are disturbed by trenching and new 

 layers formed by heaping up the rejected material over these beds, it is 

 sometimes impossiljle to satisfactorily measure the depth of the interment. 



