BARROWS AT HADDON FIELDS, DERBYSHIRE. 5 1 



interments. In the Sheffield Museum is " a . narrow-necked vessel of 

 red clay " (in Bateman's " Catalogue " — " A Romano-British Vase "), 

 which accompanied an extended interment (Saxon ?) at Bruncliff, with 

 which was an iron knife. So far as the writer recollects, its material 

 was very similar to the fragment in question. 



Our next mound was a very small one to the south of the first 

 barrow ; it gave no results at all, nor any signs of being artificial. 



We must now return to the first barrow. The sex of the skeleton 

 could not be satisfactorily determined, but it undoubtedly belonged 

 to a person in the earlier part of middle life, of slender build and 

 short stature, — the femur being 17 T 3 g inch, which, when calculated 

 as 27-5 per cent, of the whole stature in life, gives a result of 

 5 feet 2i inches for the latter. 



All the skull fragments (of which there were several dozens) that 

 could be found, were carefully collected by Dr. Greenhough ; but it 

 was impossible to reconstruct more than the calvaria — less its basal 

 bones, and much of its sides. The writer in putting the fragments 

 together, observed two sets of fractures, — the one recent — the work of 

 the labourers, and the other consisting of several bold fractures (one 

 transversely from the one temporal bone to the other), indicative of 

 some remote breakage of the skull. It is, to use words of Sir 

 William Turner of Edinboro', to whom it was submitted—" an 

 excellent example of a Dolicho-cephalic skull, belonging to a 

 pre-Saxon race " ; and he decides the sex as male, his reasons 

 being,— 



1. "The massiveness of the supra-orbital arch — always more pro- 

 nounced in the male skull, and well shown in this specimen ; 



2. The prominence of the superciliary ridges — also well seen here ; 

 and 



3. The absence of a bulging outwards of the occipital bone, superior 

 to the external occipital protuberance."" 



In the lateral aspect the contour line presents the usual oval curve — 

 at first, almost vertical for an inch above the supra- orbital arch, and 

 then it takes a sharp, but rapidly diminishing curve until it reaches its 



* This latter statement I do not understand : it seems to me to be just the 

 reverse of the case. 



