112 Discovery of Two Graves cut in Ike solid Chalk Rock. 



apparently prepared for mother and child. These are not all close 

 to each other," but in these cases the upper surface of the rock is 

 now level with the surrounding turf; interments, therefore, could 

 not have been made on the site without excavating' the rock. All 

 the Heysham graves exhibit traces of rebates for stone covers, and 

 at the head of each there is a square hole, probably used as a socket 

 for the shaft of a memorial cross. 



The Broad Hinton graves w(!re 7 feet below the surface of the 

 turf. They are now only 4 feet, much soil surrounding the Church 

 having to be removed. In depth they are 1 foot 2 inches ; in widthj 

 at shoulder, 1 foot 4 inches ; at the foot (which is semi-circular), 

 9 inches. 



Many interments have been made over these rock graves, but none 

 at so great a depth as to have been likely to have disturbed the 

 deposits found in them. 



The following measurements of bones belonging to the skull 

 described by Professor Rolleston will be of interest : — length of 

 humerus, llf inches; radius, 9| inches; ulna, 10^ inches; femur, 

 16 J inches. 



Burials in woollen, being ordered in 1678, have no connection with 

 these graves. 



Description of the skull, by Professor Rolleston : — 

 " A skull and lower jaw received by me from the Rev. J. A. Lloyd, 

 for measurement and description, appear to have belonged to a man 

 past the middle period of life who had been of considerable muscular 

 strength, and whose well-filled-out globose brain case shews that he 

 possessed a well-developed cerebrum. To these statements as to 

 age and strength, bodily and mental, the details of the subjoined 

 description and measurements will testify ; as to the particular period 

 in the world's history in which the owner of this skull lived these 

 remains do not bear such undeniable evidence. Still the calvaria is 

 too well filled out and too little rugged to render it likely that this 

 skull belonged to pre-historic times ; and the teeth, though they 

 have not suffered more loss numerically than modern sets often do, 

 have yet suffered more in the way of horizontal wearing down than 



