l6 SUTCLIFFK, Tendencies in Preliistorit Anthropology . 



This conclusion is logical, but depends entirelyon the age 

 of the Galley Mill man. Quite recently another skeleton 

 of modern t)pc, for which a high antiquity is claimed, 

 has been found by Mr. Reid Moir at Ipswich. These two 

 finds are the only evidence of the occurrence of a modern 

 type of man at this early date, and it is very desirable to 

 examine their authenticity. 



It is to be noticed first of all that they are, with the 

 exception of Eoanthropus* the only human bones which 

 claim to have been found in our undisturbed Pleistocene 

 deposits, not in caves, and that they are, or were, when 

 found, both complete skeletons. Many thousands of bones 

 of animals comparable in size with man have been found 

 in Pleistocene river deposits in England, and (july one 

 mountable skeleton is known, a hippopotamus from Har- 

 rington, near Cambridge. Even small associated sets of 

 bones are of extreme rarity ; five only have been placed 

 on record in museums : Bos priniigenitis, llford (Brit. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist.) ; Hippopotamus ninjor, Barrington (Cambridge 

 Mus.) ; Rhinoceros antiqiutaiis, Crayford (Manchester 

 Mus.) ; and the remains to which Sir Antonio Brady's 

 Mammoth skull belonged. 



It may be objected that complete skeletons have 

 (occurred at Galley Hill and the neighbouring pits. This 

 cannot be denied, but they do not assist the argument, 

 since the relics are undoubtedly those of recent cattle, a 

 specimen of which collected by D. M. S. Watson eight feet 

 below the surface in the Milton Street pit has been 

 deposited in the Manchester Museum. Continental 

 experience in river gravels agrees with our own in that 

 separate bones are common enough, but associated sets 

 of bones unusual. The chances therefore against the only 

 specimen of a type being a skeleton are enormous. The 

 * And the Bury St. Edmunds fragments. 



