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N.W. ; length from crown of skull to the phalanges of the left 

 foot, 4- 1ft. 



In uncovering the bones a large number of small flint flakes 

 were observed, about seventy examples being preserved. 

 But the most interesting object found with the skeleton was 

 the greater part of a small Romano-British vase (No. 205) 

 discovered in some fifty fragments, almost touching the right 

 hand ; height 4|in., diameter at rim 3fin., blackish-brown 

 colour. It bears slight traces of the burnished lattice 

 pattern, and in form is precisely similar to common vessels 

 found in the Rotherley village.* 



The skeleton is that of a male of middle age, and I am 

 informed by Dr. Wright, who has examined the bones, that 

 they " abundantly testify that they belonged to an unusually 

 muscular subject, this statement being based upon (1) the 

 rough impressions which the bones bear for muscular attach- 

 ments, and (2) the muscular curving and twisting of the 

 shafts of the bones." 



My measurements of the skeleton show that the individual 

 was dolichocephalic, or long-headed, with a cephalic index of 

 73'9, and that his stature was about 5ft. 7'3in. The mean 

 stature of the tallest men from the three Romano-British 

 villages excavated by General Pitt-Rivers was 5ft. 7' Tin. 

 The Maumbury man had extremely short upper arms, es- 

 pecially the left ; the right fore-arm on the other hand was 

 abnormally long. The shortness of the right upper-arm 

 was made up for by the great length of the fore-arm. Unfor- 

 tunately the remains of the left fore-arm are insufficient to 

 decide whether its length compensated for the extreme 

 shortness of the upper-arm. 



Cutting XVII. was made at right angles to the long axis of 

 Maumbury and just outside the great gap in the embankment 

 on the N.N.E. (See Plate I.) Its purpose was to ascertain 

 whether the entrance-way into the amphitheatre, cut out of 



* " Excavations in Cranborne Chase," II., PI. cviii., Figs, 2, 3, 4, 



