XX. 



NOTES ON A SECOND SKELETON FOUND 

 AT CISSBUEY. 



At page 431 of vol. vii. of the 'Journal of the Anthropological 

 Institute,' May, 1878, will be found a short account by Mr. J. 

 Park Harrison of the discovery of a second skeleton in the Cissbury 

 Flint-works. This discovery was made at the end of March of 

 that year, and having myself been engaged in the investigations 

 carried on at Cissbury in 1875 (see ' Journal Anthrop. Inst.' vol. v. 

 Jan. 1876, Article xix, General Lane Fox, 'Excavations in Cissbury 

 Camp/ pp. 35J to 390, and vol. vi. 1876, pp. 20 to 36), I was suffi- 

 ciently interested in Mr. Park Harrison's discovery to visit the 

 scene of his operations on April 5, 1878. 



On arriving I found that the skeleton had been carefully removed 

 and committed to the guardianship of Dr. C. Kelly, the Officer of 

 Health for the District, and now Professor of Medical Jurispru- 

 dence at King's College. To him, as to Mr. Park Harrison, my 

 best thanks are due, for the information which they most kindly 

 supplied me with as to the details of the ' find ; ' and to Dr. Kelly's 

 professional knowledge and supervision the almost perfect recovery 

 of the bones is to be ascribed. 



The view which, partly from the data furnished to me by these 

 gentlemen, partly from my own observations on the spot, I have 

 come to entertain as to the history of this interment may be briefly 

 stated thus : — One of the ' cave-pits ' or shafts of the Cissbury flint 

 mines 1 having been disused by the flint workers for some time, had 

 got filled up to about one-half of its depth, just as several of these 

 pits have got filled up since our opening of them, by the scaling 



1 For a ground-plan showing the particular shaft in its relation to the other shafts 

 in its immediate neighbourhood, see Mr. Park Harrison's paper 'Additional Dis- 

 coveries at Cissbury' in 'Journ. Anthrop. Inst.,' vol. vi. PL X. p. 413, May 1878, 

 where it is numbered Shaft Vi. 



For a figure of one of these shafts as they appear when cleared out of the rubble 

 which till recently filled them up, and as it may be supposed to have appeared, if we 

 add by imagination a quantity of rubble to the bottom of it, when the flint workers 

 had finished, see Mr. Park Harrison's paper, ibid., vi. PI. XXIV. p. 432, May 1877. 



