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fallen forward to the bottom of a pit with his arm raised as if to 
defend his head, a javelin head of iron rudely wrought was found. 
In one pit were the skeletons of two men in the attitude 
apparently of deadly conflict, the skull of the lower being broken 
against a sharp point of rock. 
It appeared clear in some cases that pieces of rock had been 
violently thrown in on the bodies, so violently indeed that the 
skull of the tall warrior before mentioned was much fractured and 
displaced, and the left collar bone dislocated and forced up into 
the hollow of the lower jaw. 
The depth at which the skeletons were found is of course a 
most important point. Now one was found about 5ft. 6in. below 
the surface. In the pit lined with masonry the highest skeleton 
was about 3ft. 6in. deep, another beneath it and six inches lower 
the tall warrior, the whole depth of the pit being 5 feet 9 inches. 
In another pit were human bones rather more than 5 feet deep, 
“the skeleton lying on its face,” and an iron spike about 4 inches 
long about 8 or 9 inches below the jaw. “ Under this” the usual 
deposit of black mould and pieces of stick like wattle-work, and 
under this the wheat and barley kept separate by pieces of thin 
board, and part of a sedge mat. 
The depth at which human remains were found is of course one 
of the most important data for any guess as to the time when the 
fight took place, in which it is clear that these poor barbarians 
met their death. 
The pits were simply the underground portions of dwelling- 
places which consisted of low circular dry walls surmounted by 
roofs of branches thatched with reeds or some such covering. For 
it does not seem that these huts were built of contracting layers 
of stone. 
There is every probability that the quantity of charcoal mixed 
with pieces of branches and twigs which was found in most of 
these pits was in fact the material of the roofs which were burnt 
and fell in, That a sufficient quantity of wood was burnt to pro- 
