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were obviously aged, and two only gave indications of youth, whilst 
in one the wisdom teeth were only just appearing, though all the 
other teeth were considerably worn with use. For the most part the 
sets of teeth are as perfect as they commonly are in people at the 
middle time of life, say from 30 to 50. I mention this particularly 
because a contrary opinion has been expressed by Mr. Chapman, of 
Oxford, who having seen rather more than a dozen skeletons taken 
out, found that full one-third were either those of aged or immature 
persons, one being a child not exceeding seven years old, and haying 
few or none of the permanent teeth. However, Mr. Chapman has now 
seen ample grounds for coming to my opinion, viz., what I have before 
stated, that they are almost entirely the skeletons of men in the prime 
of life. I am not aware that a female skeleton has yet been certainly 
identified. +Without a single exception they are placed east and west, 
some of them with the hands crossed over the abdomen, and in others 
lying by their sides, the heads in some being raised, whilst in others they 
are lying easily on one side. Every evidence tends to show that they 
were all buried at one time, and immediately after death. In some 
places they lie one upon another, but in others they form but one 
layer not more than one foot to a foot and a half from the surface. 
Searcely a mile from Mileote, on the other side of the Avon, and 
immediately opposite the unior of the Avon and Stour, rises a hill 
called Bardon Hill, and westward of the hill is a farm house called, in 
the days of Dugdale, and to present time, ‘“Dodwell.” I read in the 
Gentleman's Magazine for 1794, vol. iv. p. 505, the following notice:— 
“In the old enclosure belonging to Dodwell, in 1777. in digging for 
limestone, six human skeletons were discovered, but neither weapon 
nor any other appendage.” As a geologist, I know Dodwell pretty 
well, and have no doubt but that the quarry alluded to was on a spur 
of the hill mentioned above, towards the west, and only a little 
distance from the Stratford and Evesham road. I am the more 
confirmed in this supposition by the discovery, only five or six years 
ago, of several human skeletons on the south foot of the same hill, 
and immediately by the side of the same road. These skeletons, as 
I learn from good authority, were carefully laid east and west, and 
about a foot and a half from the surface. Nothing was found with 
them. 
Following the Avon for a few miles in its downward course, we reach 
the village of Binton, described by Dugdale as situated on the brow of 
a hill. It rather occupies a hollow running into the hill, and partially 
detaching a part of it, which forms a kind of promotory. At the foot 
of this promotory, in lowering a garden in 1860 or 1861, several 
human skeletons were found, some of which I saw taken out. They 
were all lying east and west, as correctly east and west as the church. 
is placed, which being only on the other side of the village street, was 
fully in sight when the bones were removed. All of these were about 
a foot and a half from the surface, and, with one exception, were in a 
flat position on their backs. One only of those I saw was doubled up, 
as if put into a hole which was too short, so that the whole of his back 
