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too plainly the occasion of their being there. Again, any one seeing 
the Milcote skeletons lying side by side, every one having the same 
position as his fellow, and that position such a one as could be hastily 
accomplished—the head either supported behind or falling easily on 
one side—would at a glance conclude that all had been interred im- 
mediately after death, and at one time. Dugdale, speaking of Milcote, 
says that it was wrested by violence from the Saxons in the time of 
Canute the Dane.* ‘There are, however, some cogent reasons for 
suspecting that these skeletons are those of a people more recent than 
the Saxons or Danes, one being that the skulls are like those of a 
mixed race, such as the English of the present day. Indeed, they are 
not distinguishable from collections of recent skulls in our museums 
and schools of medicine. The Welcombe deposit may perhaps differ 
from the others which I have mentioned, at any rate, in respect of the 
presence of weapons, it is essentially different. 
Mr. John Fetherston, Jun., then called the attention of the 
members to the specimen of Roman Pottery, on the table, 
which had been found in the Parish of Weston-upon-Ayon 
(in which Mileote is situate), by Mr. R. F. Tomes, 
associated with a Coin of the Emperor Domitian. <A few 
fragments were of Samian Ware, the remainder unglazed 
and of a red and grey colour. 
The Winter Meeting of the Warwickshire Naturalists’ 
Field Club was held in the Museum, Warwick, (by kind 
permission of the Council of the Natural History Society) 
on Tuesday, February 14th, 1865. Mr. Parker delivered 
a lecture on the ‘“‘bone caves of Liége,” and the Rey. 
P. B. Brodie read a paper ‘‘on three Lias Outliers in 
North Shropshire, South Cheshire, Staffordshire, and 
Cumberland, and their correlation with the main range.” 
The Summer Meetings were held at Fenny Compton, 
on May the 25th; at Stratford-upon-Avon and Wilmcote, 
on August the 9th; and the Meeting of the Archeological 
section of the Club was held at Banbury, on the 19th 
of September. 
* Reg. de Wigorn, in bibl. Cotton, p. 1366. 
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