40 BARROWS AT HADDON FIELDS, DERBYSHIRE. 



sheep hypothesis, secured fragments of the skull and leg and arm- 

 bones, and brought them to Dr. Greenhough, of Youlgreave, who at 

 once pronounced them human. Without delay, he repaired to the 

 spot, where he picked up (to quote his words) " several pieces of 

 bone — two cervical vertebrae, and also a large lumbar one, with a 

 portion of the scapula, and several fragments of skull j also a piece of 

 iron, very much rusted, and in the form of a hook." 



The next day he had the site carefully cleared, and found much of 

 the skeleton still remaining; the upper parts, however, were dis- 

 turbed and scattered — no doubt by the labourers in breaking the 

 gritstone slabs ; but, to judge from his sketch, the lower parts were 

 in situ, and fully indicated the mode of burial. The corpse had been 

 laid on its right side, with the head to the west, in a contracted 

 attitude ; but insttad of the knees being brought up towards the 

 chest, as is usually the case in such buria's, it took the oriental 

 attitude of sitting upon the feet, the feet being in a straight line with 

 the body. The exact position of the arms and hands is uncertain. 

 The skeleton lay upon a bed of chert- fragments, with a few pieces of 

 limestone and sandstone, which showed signs of the action of fire. 

 There were also one or two pieces of ironstone. This bed was some- 

 what below the natural surface, yet not deep enough to allow the 

 depression to be called a grave. As we subsequently found else- 

 where in the field scattered fragments of chert, immediately below 

 the vegetable mould, it was suggested that this would account for 

 the bed in question. But it is clear from Dr. Greenhough's 

 account that it was more than a mere sprinkling of chert ; and, 

 besides, it w r as " made ground," since immediately below it were found 

 the core and part of the skull of an ox, and near to it a long bone, 

 much decayed (probably a rib of the same animal), touching which 

 was a small lump of charcoal, which crumbled to bits when 

 handled — a further evidence of fire. At a little distance, laterally, 

 from the skeleton, were the lower jaw-bone cf pig, and several 

 teeth of ox,* and others of sheep or goat. Besides these were frag- 

 ments of bone and several pig's teeth, in various positions, near the 



*Professor B. Dawkins identifies it as Bos Longifrons. 



