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Report on the Stapenhtll Explorations. 
o (WITH FRONTISPIECE AND TEN PLATES.) 
By JoHN HERon, 
Hon. SECRETARY OF THE EXPLORATION COMMITTEE. 
WHE following report of the Stapenhill Explorations, 
which is a revised and enlarged edition of the one 
presented to the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and 
Archeological Society at their meeting held on Tues- 
day, February 28th, 1882, has been drawn up at the request of 
the Committee for publication in the transactions of the Society. 
For several reasons it has been deemed advisable that all 
doubtful questions and theories should be avoided as much as 
possible, and that this report should simply take the form of a 
record of the work done by the Exploration Committee, giving as 
accurate a description as possible of the various graves and their 
contents. 
PARI 3 
THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 
THE Site.—That portion of ground in which the remains 
about to be described were discovered, is a fine breezy upland, 
situated on the crest of an undulating ridge of hills on the 
Derbyshire side of the river Trent, at an elevation of 120 feet 
above the level of that river and 300 feet above the sea level. It 
lies at the southern end of Stapenhill village, about half-a-mile 
S.S.E. of the Parish Church and just within the boundary line of — 
the borough of Burton-on-Trent, and is immediately skirted on — 
