PRE-HISTORIC RELICS FROM BEVERLY. 

 (with two plates.) 



CONTRIBUTED BY JOHN ROBINSON. 



On July 21, 1871, a very interesting collection of pre- 

 historic objects was obtained l)y the Peabody Academy 

 of Science from three graves, accidentally discovered on 

 Lovett street, Beverly, l)y workmen engaged in digging 

 a trench. Some account of these objects will be found 

 on page 125 of the Bulletin of the Essex Institute for 

 1871, Vol. Ill, as announced by Mr. F. W. Putnam at 

 an Institute field meeting held at Ship Rock, Peabody, 

 Aug. 2, 1871, It was intended to give a fuller descrip- 

 tion of this collection, witli illustrations, in the "American 

 Naturalist" magazine, but this was never done. Professor 

 Putnam also intended to contribute, to the memoirs of the 

 Peabody Academy, an article on the pre-historic graves 

 in Essex County ; but, later, this plan was relinquished. 

 For this last purpose, however, two excellent lithographic 

 plates were prepared by Mr. G. M. White, and printed. 

 It is now thought well t^o use these plates for the Institute 

 Bulletin, and they are introduced here as supjilementary 

 to the article of 1871, Vol. Ill, pp. 123-5, above men- 

 tioned. 



The plates cover the moie interesting objects found in 

 the three graves at Beverly and may be described as 

 follows : — 



(89) 



