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found a skeleton lying on the right side, with the head to the 
north-west. This skeleton though in a very decayed state, was 
nearly perfect with the exception of the lower part of the legs, 
which had disappeared. 
“On cleaning the skull three cuts entirely penetrating the bone, 
and evidently inflicted by some heavy and very sharp weapon, 
were discovered ; the collar bone and the left arm, a little below 
the shoulder, also bore marks of severe wounds, apparently from 
the same cutting weapon; there was nothing else of interest in 
this hole.” 
On Monday, October 21st, 1851, another pit was opened rather 
near the south entrance. In this, the sides, to the depth of about 
three feet and a half, were of the natural rock, but from this point 
downwards to the depth of two feet was a nearly circular excava- 
tion lined round with dry stone masonry. 
Its dimensions were four feet six inches in the widzr diameter 
and four feet in the narrower. ; 
Within this straitened pit were found three skeletons forced in 
and lying doubled up on their sides in various directions, the head 
of one being towards the south, of another towards the west-south- 
west, and of the third towards the north. 
One of these skeletons was that of an unusually tall man whose 
skull was cleft to the brain by a deadly cut from some very sharp 
weapon, and whose left thigh-bone was also cut in an upward 
direction as if by a stroke from an enemy below. 
Beneath the bodies was a quantity of dark mould ; then some 
charred grain (wheat and barley) lying under some thin plates of 
lias. There were also some horses’ teeth and a number of shore- 
pebbles, doubtless intended for the sling. Mixed with the grain 
were “some small bones, apparently those of birds,” and the pit 
also contained some fragments of ochre, part of which was burned, 
and some charred wood. 
The bottom of the pit was merely the solid rock. The account 
just given of the opening of these two pits will give a good 
