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Fourteen thigh-bones were found, so that at least seven persons 

 had been placed there. There were portions of three lower 

 jaws, and of one upper jaw. The largest thigh bones measured 

 eighteen inches in length, and three inches and a half in 

 circumference. The usual length of the human trunk is about 

 two feet five inches, the thigh-bones and legs are about the 

 same length, a calculation from the above measurement would 

 give a height of about five feet eight inches. The occipital-bones 

 were large ; the parietal-bones were small and flattened. The 

 length of one skull from the occipital foramen to the lower edge 

 of the frontal bone, was fifteen inches and a half; from ear to 

 ear eleven inches, and the circumference twenty inches. There 

 was only a small portion of the frontal-bone. The form of the 

 occipital-bones, and posterior parts of the parietal-bones, are 

 pecuhar, being large and expanded below, and narrow and 

 contracted above. A large and small tibia belonged to a male 

 and female : two arm-bones indicated the same thing ; the 

 structure of the smaller bones being finer and of a more delicate 

 structure. 



A thigh-bone, eighteen inches long, had a united fracture 

 across its middle. Another thigh-bone was hardened and 

 irregular on its outer surface, with an opening an inch long, 

 and a quarter of an inch wide, a little below its middle, which 

 appeared like the result of disease. 



THE FOXCOTE TUMULUS. 



In this Tumulus there were two Eoman coins and a half 

 found in the black earth, and a broken earthen vessel containing 

 small coins. There was a dry wall across the heap of stones, 

 and a Kist near its centre ; the ends and sides of it formed 

 of flat stones placed on their edges and covered with flat 

 stones two feet square. The Kist contained the remains of 

 only one female. The skull was of the same shape as those 

 found in the field at Hailing, viz., — long, broad at the base ; 

 twenty-one inches in circumference ; low vaulted ; narrow, low, 

 and contracted in front, with prominent frontal ridges; a 



