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duplicate parts. The remains appear, therefore, to have been associated 
with the two sections of worked clay, which, I was informed, represented 
approximately eight linear feet, extending in a N.N.E. direction from the 
face of the clay section which was then standing (Fig. 1). With the 
exception of the phalanges and skull it is impossible, under the circum- 
stances, to give further particulars of the disposition of the various bones 
recovered, 
The exact position of the find lies about 300 paces due South from No. 16 
Chester Road, Saltney, on the old river bank, opposite Wood’s foundry. 
The section exposed (fig. 1) ran E.S.E. to W.N-W. and slopes down- 
wards and westwards to the old river bed (fig. 1a), the greatest depth 
being about 8ft. at the E.S.E. extremity. The clay of which it is composed 
is decidedly arenaceous along its upper portion, but this character gradually 
lessens towards the base of the section. At 18 inches from the surface is 
a more or less continuous bed of water-worn pebbles and small boulders 
(in fig. 1 the right hand of the figure rests upon one of them) lying flat 
sides down. In the upper stratum, including the pebble bed, I found 
fragments of Romano-British Pottery, ¢.g., portions of terra-cotta water 
bottles, cinerary urns of the Upchurch ware, and one small fragment of a 
Samian bowl, but no trace of such relics were found below the level of the 
pebble bed. Below the latter the clay gradually becomes more tenacious, 
and is very stiff towards the base of the exposed section. At varying 
depths below the pebble bed I found the following Marine Shells, which 
are undoubtedly of glacial origin :— 
Turritella terebra (several). 
Littorina littorea (one). 
Cardium edule ‘several fragments). 
Fusus sp, ? (fragment). 
There were also many, almost perfect, examples of the common land 
snail, Helix nemoralis ; and scattered throughout the section were numerous 
minute fragments of charcoal (carbon). 
Judging from the impression in the clay the skull was lying face down, 
and this is confirmed by the position of the clay in the interior of 
the skull which filled the anterior or facial half of it. It was lying exactly 
5ft. 3in. from the surface at the spot indicated by the arrow in fig. 1. On 
either side of the skull were the phalanges of the right and left hands; 
and immediately to the left (E.S.E.) of the former was an almost perfect 
skull of Bos longifrons, lying with the anterior portion towards the section 
(N.N.E.) Many of the bones were coated with the thin characteristic blue- 
grey deposit (? lime), which one finds coating almost all interstices in the 
clay deposits of the district. 
The following is a list of the other bones recovered :— 
Vertebree of the cervical and lumbar regions, 15 in number. 
Ribs, 20 and mostly imperfect. 
Humerus, radius and ulna of left arm, complete. 
Portions of each scapula. 
Pelvis, with left and right innominate bones complete. (It should 
be noted that this had been separated into its three com- 
ponent parts ; that the sacrum was recovered from the stone- 
heap mentioned above, and must have been excavated many 
weeks prior to the discovery of the innominate bones. It 
would seem, therefore, they were not lying together intact 
in the clay, and, moreover, indicate they were lying asunder 
when buried). 
Right femur, complete (with recent central fracture). 
Upper two-thirds of left femur (fracture recent). 
The skull (figs. 2 and 3) is remarkably well formed, and in its general 
contour resembles very closely the Tilbury example. The articulation of the 
jaw gives an edge to edge bite, which may, to a great extent, account for 
the wearing away of the front teeth, but at the same time it may have been 
produced by masticating hard uncooked food. The teeth were all present 
