282 Notes on the Opening of a Tumulus on 



I did not at the time realise that the bones belonged to more than 

 one individual, until Gen. Pitt-Rivers pointed out that there were 

 four OS calces and four astragali, and that therefore there must have 

 been two skeletons. 



Of the animal bones I collected all the complete examples that 

 were unearthed and submitted them, together with specimens of the 

 pottery, to Gen. Pitt-Rivers, who has most kindly identified them 

 and given me the following notes upon them. He writes : — " I 

 have not attempted to identify the broken bones or those in which 

 the epiphyses were wanting, which are all young, and from the 

 number of these I imagine that — as has sometimes been found here 

 •—young animals were a good deal eaten. The tibia of the man- 

 assuming it to be male — gives a stature of about 5ft. 0"8in., and 

 therefore of the same small size that we have so frequently 

 here (near Rushmore) in connection with Romano-British remains. 



" The bones of ox show that they were small animals about the 

 size of our Kerry Cow, and less than the Alderney, in which respect 

 they tally with those found here in both Romano-British and Bronze 

 Age remains ; and as the size of the bones in excavations is generally 

 very persistent I think we may assume that that was the prevailing 

 size of the ox both here and there. 



" The sheep, judging chiefly by the metacarpi, but also by the 

 lower jaws and all the other remains, were of the small thin-legged 

 breed that has been found in excavations here, and which are com- 

 parable only with the St. Kilda breed of our own time. An idea 

 may be formed of the slenderness of the bones by the fact that the 

 least circumference of the metatarsi is only 86™"", whereas that of an 

 ordinary Dorset ram is 55°"". 



" The remains of pig are of small size, but I think they are all 

 young. 



" The dog is of the size of a terrier.'''' 



As I have said above the contents of the mound had been so mixed 

 up that there was no certainty that anything was in its original 

 place. All the coins were found in the mound, that of Carausius on 

 the surface, that of Valeus about 1ft. Gin. under the surface, that 

 of Constuutiue in the earth thrown out from the trench. The 



