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field. Outside the Kist were small heaps of charcoal, several 

 flint flakes, and teeth and bones of animals. The skulls were 

 long with broad bases, projecting jaws, high cheek-bones, and 

 low vaulted. A depression, the result of a fracture, was* 

 observed upon the parietal-bone of one skull, which may have 

 resulted from a blow. (A flatness upon the upper and outer 

 part of the femur, is a common peculiarity ; the ridges, processes 

 and attachment of muscles are strongly developed.) The bones 

 in the skull varied in thickness from the ordinary thickness in 

 the frontal, and parietal, and occipital-bones, to nearly half an 

 inch : some of the thigh-bones were eighteen and nineteen 

 inches long. Some of the skulls were twenty-two inches in 

 circumference ; from ear to ear twelve inches ; from the occipital 

 ridge to the frontal 14 inches ; across the base five inches ; the 

 height of some of the frontal-bones, five inches and a half, and 

 six inches wide. The occipital-bones were large, three inches 

 from occipital ridge to the Lambdoidal suture. 



It was stated that about half-a-mile from this spot, several 

 Tumuli were removed ; the stones were used in mending roads, 

 and the human bones were buried in the churchyard. The 

 fields near Hailing contain many flints. 



EOUND TUMULUS, 

 In Dry Heathfield, Leckhampton. 



This is situated a little to the West of some dry old wall 

 foundations, supposed to have been the remains of a British 

 village, and before my visit it had been examined by Messrs. 

 GoMOND and Bell. It was about twenty yards across ; the Kist 

 was about six feet long, two feet wide, and two deep, the sides 

 and ends were formed of neat dry walling of Stonesfield slate, 

 the covering stones had been removed, and all its parts much 

 disturbed. It contained human remains of both sexes, of 

 various ages : there were also traces of cremation ; the skulls 

 were long with wide bases, flat on the sides and low in the roof, 

 the frontal bones were contracted and narrow, and had no 

 traces of sagittal sutures, even in the bones of the children. 



