80 BOUND BARROW AT MELCOMBE BINGHAM. 



bone is slender. I expect she was disturbed when the cremation was 

 buried. She too, is of the Bronze-age brachycephalic type. 



Apparently there had been several interments before the lady was 

 laid in No. II grave ; for with her, or in the debris that fell from the 

 site of No. I, were fragments of the following persons 



(a). Oldish man, represented by fragments of face and jaws, skull, 

 and bits of limb bones. The bones are all of a grey colour, 

 chalky, and appear to me to have been much longer in the soil 

 than any other bones found. 



(b). Part of the jaw and femur of a child of 5 or 6 years ; bones 

 chalky and as ancient as (a.) 



(c). A few fragments of a woman, also chalky and ancient. 



(a), (b), and (c) represent debris from interments more ancient than 

 No. II. 



No. IV. INTERMENT. In the boxes, containing remains of No. II 

 woman, was a skeleton and skull. The latter had been recently broken 

 as by a cart wheel. Rather a stoutly made, strong, woman, not much, 

 if any, over 5 feet in height, big pelvis. She is of the brachycephalic 

 type ; but it will not be possible fully to restore her skull. 



They are thus all of the brachycephalic type, so far as one may 

 judge : 



1. A big fine man. No. III. grave. 



2. A woman. No. I. grave. 



3. A woman. No. II. grave. 



4. A woman. (Cremation). No. II. grave. 



5. A Woman. No. IV. grave. 



Besides these, there are fragments of 1 man, 1 woman, 1 child, and 

 also bits which will seem to represent still 2 other individuals. You 

 have thus, at least, two men, 5 women, 1 child, and perhaps 2 other 

 individuals. 



P.S. I think you are dealing with a Bronze-age burial place. Clearly 

 cremation was practised after No. Ill, interment, and before No. 1. 

 A.K. 



Oct. 21st, 1917. Since the printing of the above notes, Major 

 Ashburnham, with Mr. Legge, has this Autumn (1917) completely 

 excavated half the inner ditch, beginning from the South side where 

 the first cutting was begun in 1916 and working round by West to the 

 North end of last year's cutting. Another urn broken in pieces, stand- 

 ing upright and filled with cremated remains, was found 6| feet to the 

 West of the urn discovered in 1916. The fragments of it were sent to 

 Captain Acland, Dorset County Museum. The excavation took two 

 weeks. No further urns were discovered, and the only results of 

 strenuous digging were three small pieces of broken pottery, and, at 

 the bottom of the ditch, an antler pick and some animal bones. 



