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In the month of May I was paiticularly successful in 

 luy discoveries of pottery, of vvliich three vessels, now in 

 the Museum of the Society, have been satisfactorily 

 restored by Drs. Tomkins and Pj'ing. Besides pottery, 

 we found many skeletons, several of them bearlng marks 

 of great violence ; two very good iron spear-heads ; several 

 flint flakes, prepared for arrow-heads ; a quantity of bones 

 of animals and water-fowl ; corn, more completely burnt 

 at the top than below, shewing that the fire carae from 

 above ; a piece of the hom of some animal, fashioned 

 apparently into the mouth-piece of a musical instrument, 

 and ornamented with a rüde pattern ; a piece of burnt 

 wood, with holes drill ed through it ; iron spikes, similar 

 to the one found piercing one of the skeletons, which 

 were probably the heads of very rüde javelins ; fragments 

 of bronze and wooden Ornaments ; three kinds of burnt 

 grain, wheat, barley, and some sort of pulse ; and parts of 

 two concentric circles of iron, which were lying one within 

 the other, and had much the appearance of having formed 

 part of a shield.* 



In the autumn, my discoveries were very similar in cha- 

 racter to those made in the spring, with the exception of 

 some bones of oxen, which appear to be those of the 

 Bos-longlfrons, a species which became extinct in these 

 islands at a very early date, though certalnly existing here 

 dm-ing the British period. One discovery was made, 

 which at first sight seemed to militate against my theory, 

 but which, on closer consideration, I think rather confirms 

 it than otherwise. Having finished the excavation of one 

 hole, we were Walking over the hill to another, Avhen a 

 workman Struck bis pick-axe into the ground by chance, 

 and brought up a small piece of pottery, Avhich I at once 



* Several of those arc figurod in the Proccedings for 1852, p. 12. 



