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being seven and a quarter inches. The impression of the net, 

 placed on the wearer's head previous to the operation of plaster- 

 ing, is beautifully preserved, and presents on an enlarged scale 

 the engine-turned appearance of a watch-case cover, the thread 

 impressions radiating from a vertex. The latter is nearer the 

 anterior than the posterior end, three and a half inches from the 

 front edge of the opening. The impressions of the radiating 

 strings of the net are broad and deep, showing that a very coarse 

 string was used in the manufacture of the latter; the mesh is 

 rhomboidal and large. From the colour still remaining in the 

 net impression, it is evident that the cap had been removed from 

 a red sandy deposit. The weight is 7 lbs. 7^ ozs. 



The cap presented to the Museum by Mr. C. Kilgour (Plates 

 xxviii.-xxix.) is conical, decreasing to an obtuse apex that is eccen- 

 tric both longitudinally and transvei'sely; it is more posterior than 

 anterior in position. The length is eight inches, width seven and 

 a quarter inches, and the height seven inches. The length of the 

 head cavity is seven and a half inches, the general width six and 

 a quarter, being slightly wider at the posterior than the anterior 

 end, the depth four inches, thus allowing a thickness of three 

 inches to the plaster in the crown, and is the most solid at that 

 point of the three examples; the margin is broken, but so far as 

 preserved there is no sign of the incurving of the edge seen in Sir 

 Joseph Abbott's specimen, and still more marked in that remain- 

 ing to be described. The interior of the crown is rather flattened, 

 but the vertex of the net is not preserved. The impression of the 

 net-mesh, on the other hand, is so, the ribbing of the net being 

 simply radiate, not after the engine-turned pattern, the resulting 

 mesh-holes being square. The grooves left bj' the net, as in the 

 case of the tirst specimen, retain particles of a red sandy clay. 

 The weight of this cap is 4 lbs. 8^ ozs. 



The third, or Museum specimen (Plates xxx.-xxxi.), is the least 

 well preserved, exhibiting evidence of lateral pressure when in a 

 plastic condition. It is a long-oval in outline and depressed. The 

 lenath is eleven and a half inches, in width seven and a half 

 inches, and in total height five and a half inches. The margin 



