1 8 SUTCLIFFE, Teiiiencies in Prehistoric Anthropology. 



deposited that boulder clay passed over it ? Mr. Reid Moir 

 also claims that, because the cranium was filled with a 

 compact mass of cla)' (giving a perfect brain cast), such 

 infilling could onh' have been formed by a wet liquid slip 

 derived from a glacier; but surel\- the action of worms 

 and of rains would fill the skull easily enough, even if it 

 had been buried. The whole evidence depends absolutely 

 on the undisturbed condition of the clay above ; and it 

 must be borne in mind it is alwa}'s difficult to prove the 

 undisturbed condition of any unbedded rock, particularly 

 when the cover is very thin, as it was in this case. In 

 neither the Galley Hill skeleton nor the Ipswich skeleton 

 is there an)- internal evidence of great antiquity, whilst 

 the evidence that the}' are not merely burials rests, as it 

 has been shown, on so slight a foundation that it cannot 

 for a moment stand against the inherent improbability of 

 the occurrence of two complete skeletons as the sole 

 representatives of a rare type in British Pleistocene strata. 



Moreover, I visited the place at Ipswich where the 

 skeleton was found. I was taken there b)' the workman 

 who discovered it, and after a very careful examination of 

 all the evidence, \ came to the conclusion that it was an 

 intrusive burial in which a grave was dug down through 

 the boulder clay to the mid-glacial sands below. 



The actual position of the Ipswich man, as shown in 

 Professor Keith's figures, with the knees up under the 

 chin and the hands crossing them, is absolutely incon- 

 sistent with any view except that of burial ; even the 

 finest skeletons found fossil are usually slightly scattered 

 and spread about. 



Conclusion. 

 From a consideration of what has been stated in the 

 foregoing portion of this paper, the whole evidence care- 



