136 ON SOME DIGGINGS NEAR BRASSINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. 



on the Ordnance Survey County Map, nor is it in Bateman's list 

 of Derbyshire place-names ending in loiv. This barrow, as 

 usual, seems to have been demolished when the neighbouring 

 moor was enclosed, and when our young friends brought their 

 spades to bear upon the site there was nothing to indicate its 

 origin except the stony and gravelly character of the ground. 

 They confined themselves to the central portion, where they 

 found a human skeleton lying upon the rock, at a depth of only 

 seven or eight inches. It had been disturbed and much broken 

 — perhaps at the time the mound was removed, but not so much 

 so as to prevent it being determined that it lay on the right side 

 in the usual contracted attitude, and with the head pointing 

 southwards. No other relics were found, nor any trace of cist or 

 other protection. The skull was in so many fragments and 

 so decayed, that the writer has been able to restore only the 

 calvarial part and the lower jaw ; the measurements to follow 

 must, therefore, be accepted as only approximately correct. 



Allowing for sexual differences, this dolicho-cephalic skull 

 bears a close resemblance to the Haddon Fields specimen, 

 illustrated in Vol. X. (Plate I.) of this Journal. Like it, the 

 occiput is very prominent, much more so than is the case with 

 any of the Harborough skulls ; this together with the well- 

 marked parietal eminences gives a tapering character to the 

 posterior portion of the horizontal outline (which is symmetrical), 

 and owing to the small development of the frontal eminences, 

 the anterior portion is beautifully rounded, in this slightly 

 contrasting with the Haddon Fields skull. Sideways, the most 

 noticeable feature is the gentle parietal slope and prominent 

 occiput ; the forehead retreats, and the contour from the 

 scarcely marked superciliary ridges, to a point a little beyond 

 the coronal suture, almost exactly corresponds to the curve 

 beyond the lambdoidal suture. Viewed from the back, the 

 points of greatest width are seen to be a little below the 

 parietal eminences, beneath which the skull- walls slightly con- 

 verge. The mastoid processes are small. The sutures, half 

 obliterated. The bone is moderately thick, except at the 



