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person who Iiad reached man's estate, as a wisdom tooth and 

 two other mohxrs remain in position. The sulci of tlie supra- 

 orbital arteries are much deeper than obtain in skulls of the 

 present time. Generally speaking, the form is like Canon 

 Greenwell's Weaverthorpe specimen, with even better de- 

 veloped corrugator ridges, and it has, in addition, a remarkable 

 peculiarity in the frontal bone being equally divided by a 

 suture more easily separable than the others — in fact there 

 are two frontal bones as in the foetus. 





The uneomuKin orcurrencf of sucli finds i]i Xurth Yorkshire 

 is explained in Greenwell & Rolleston's " British I5arrows," 

 and perhaps will bear repeating, " Examination of barrows in 

 Cleveland has shown that, without exception, the interments 

 have been after cremation, the bones having been placed in 

 urns and cists." Our finds are evidently due to accidents. 

 This last example was taken out of the drift when some work- 

 men were driving the slope drift out of the ironstone seam to 

 the surface at the north end of Snail's Griff, Guisbrough, and 

 was covered with from 20 feet to "i'i feet of claj-. 



Reverting to the accumulation of vegetable and other 

 matter, one naturally enquires as to their naturalness. Are 

 they the remains of an accumulation of matter brought down 

 l)y river action, or are they part of an ancient forest ? The 

 following evidence will, I trust, be considered conclusive. 

 The long splintered and .short felled tree stuinps at NcAvport 

 are described as being in their original position. Similar 

 evidence has been noted at Redcar so far as natural position 

 of remains is concerned. This fact was observed by ^Mr. 

 Charles Harrison whilst superintending the making of the 

 Hartlepool Docks, only he noted that the mass of matter here 



