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impression of the usual course of the explorations. ‘“ The deposits 
in all are nearly the same ” (says Mr. Warre) “ first, earth washed 
from the surface ; then, rubble and pieces of rock, to the depth of 
about five feet; then black earth with fragments of wood ; then 
broken stones, and lastly, the solid rock.” 
My time forbids my proceeding to describe the opening and 
contents of the various pits. I will therefore givea more digested 
and systematic account of the relics which have been discovered. 
But first I will give exact particulars of the successive deposits in 
the very remarkable, and indeed unique, pit lined in its lower 
part with the masonry as just described, beginning from the bottom. 
Bottom live rock. 
. Quantity of wheat with a little barley. 
. Thin plates of lias. 
. Layer of broken stones. 
. Quantity of dark mould. 
. Skeleton, head to north. 
. Six inches of earth. 
. Remains of two skeletons across each other on their sides 
with legs drawn up. 
8. Four inches of earth. 
9. Top of the masonry, 27 inches in height from the rock 
bottom. 
10. Three feet six inches of rubble to the surface of the ground. 
As to human remains discovered in the pits, 
These have been such as to indicate by entire skeletons, or by 
portions of bones, or limbs more or less complete, the presence of 
a number of individuals amounting, as Dr. Pring assured me, to 
about eighteen, of these as many as half were manifestly killed in 
fight, and there was not one case, I believe, which gave any reason 
to infer an ordinary peaceful interment. 
In one case the head was cut completely off, the highest 
cervical vertebra (uélus vertebra) being severed by a clean cut. In 
some the skulls were cleft. Among the bones of one who had 
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