Ixii. president's address. 



secondary interments were of another race which had probably- 

 crossed with the round-headed large people of the bronze age. The 

 skeleton of a round-headed man was found buried near the barrow 

 with a drinking vessel of the usual type at his feet. In the old 

 surface-line beneath the barrow there was an oblong enclosure, 

 which included the primary interments, consisting of a trench 2ft. 

 deep with traces of a line of piles stuck in the trench and wedged 

 in with flhits. The ditch cf the barrow, which is 13ft. deep, 

 contained bronze age pottery at the bottom, and Roman pottery at 

 the top. This corresponds with the relics found in the ditch of a 

 village close by Worbarrow, and in the ditch of the camp which 

 General Pitt Rivers examined last year at Rushmore south 

 lodge. In all these, Roman pottery and relics were found at the 

 top only. No pottery, not even the smallest fragment, was 

 found in "Worbarrow, except one small piece, found with the six 

 primary interments on the surface-line. 



Four human skeletons of the neolithic age have been recently 

 found in a cave or fissure of a limestone cliff on the Italian 

 frontier, near Mentone, one (the last) in January. I had the 

 pleasure of visiting the cave last May, which stands 

 at the base of a grand Eocene cliff washed by the 

 waves of the Mediterranean. It measures about 80ft. long 

 and 10ft. broad, its walls converge till they meet about 50ft. 

 above the present floor. Three of the skeletons were found 

 on the east side of the cave last year, about 25ft. below 

 the original floor and near the mouth ; they were lying 

 close to each other. The outside skeleton was that of a man 

 advanced in years, lying on its back, the left arm stretched out 

 along the body, the right hand resting on the femur, and near it a 

 slightly-curved finely-edged flint implement, or blade, 9in. 

 long and nearly 2in, broad. The height of the skeleton was not 

 less than 7ft. The middle skeleton was that of a young woman. 

 The head rested on the leg bone of an ox, it Avas lying on its left 

 side with the knees slightly bent; in the left hand was a flint 

 implement 10|in. long and 2]in. broad. The third or inside 



