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viduals, and from this as from other circumstances detailed above, 

 the hypothesis of a battle will not account for the facts of these 

 burials. Many of the skulls possess the subquadrate general out- 

 line combined with smoothly swelling and elegantly rounded 

 individual contours which are described as characteristic of the 

 Roman cranium ; and the locality renders the admixture of 

 Roman soldiers by no means an impossible supposition. I am not 

 acquainted, though professed archaeologists may be, with any 

 account of a cemetery exactly resembling this in Great Britain ; 

 but the following account which Weinhold gives (' Sitzungsberichte 

 Kaiser. Akad. Wien. Phil. Hist. Class.,' 1858, bd. xxix. hft. 1. 

 p. 166) of a variety of grave mounds found in Germany and con- 

 taining unburnt bodies may be compared advantageously with the 

 imperfect account I have given above of the Dinnington tumulus. 

 His words are, ' Manchmal vermisst man an den aufgedeckten 

 Gerippen die gewohnliche sorgfaltige Behandlung der Todten ; 

 sie scheinen nur nachlassig hingelegt oder hingeworfen. (Keller, 

 " Grabhugel in Burgholzli bei Zurich ; ebd. Helvet. Heidengraber 

 und Todtenhugel," 16). Wenn die Gebeine vollig iiber einem Hau- 

 fen liegen, wie in einem Tumulus bei Biewer in Luxemburg und 

 einem Heidenbuck bei Ossingen im Thurgau, wird man annehmen 

 mussen, dass der Todte sitzend bestattet wurde ; in beiden Fallen 

 zeigt das Grab nicht die mindeste Spur einer spateren Storung. 

 (" Publicat. Soc. Hist. Luxembourg," vii. 106 ; Keller, " Helvet. 

 Heidengraber," 18).' 



The skeletons after the removal of the stones which had covered 

 them were reinterred in the earth, and it was only after the second 

 disinterment that, through the kindness of the owner of the soil, 

 they came into my hands. 



