20 Notes on the Opening of a Bronze Age Barroto at 3f anion. 



figures would be 64 and 62-8 inches. The femur, of I7f inches, 

 or 451 nim's, would yield by Manouvrier's scale 65-1 inches, or 

 63-6, but by Pearson's 65-4 if masculine, and 64 if feminine. The 

 skull is not capable of being satisfactorily recomposed, but it ap- 

 pears to have been elliptic and mesocephalic : the greatest length 

 may have been about 160 millimetres; the breadth, yet more 

 difficult to estimate, may have been 130 or a little more. The 

 bones are rather thick for a female skull. The teeth are a good 

 deal worn down by hard food ; the mandible strong and the angle 

 not very obtuse. 



On the whole, I conjecture that these remains belonged to a 

 woman of considerable age, and that their period was somewhere 

 during the latter portion of the Bronze Age. 



"John Beddoe. 



Canon Green well has kindly expressed it as his opinion that 

 the articles found in association with the skeleton certainly point 

 to its being that of a woman buried with her appliances for 

 domestic use. He regards the ornaments as those of feminine 

 adornment, the bronze awls as prickers perhaps used for boring 

 holes to draw the threads throngh in sewing, the bi'onze blades 

 not as daggers but as knives, as was probably the so-called lancet. 



All the relics are now in the safe keeping of Dr. Blake Maurice, 

 at Marlborough. It should be added that is the intention of Dr. 

 Blake Maurice to re-inter the skeleton, and to rebuild the mound 

 and to plant it with trees, so that in future it shall be held sacred 

 from the plough and still be dedicated to the memory of one who, 

 though now nameless, must once have been numbered among the 

 illustrious in the land. 



