432 NOTES ON SKELETON FOUND AT CIS3BURY. 



this collection we have an indication as to the place where the 

 flints were worked up into weapons ; and the marks of fire which 

 have been supposed to have been found there may indicate that the 

 presence of a fire was found desirable and secured by the workmen 

 of those early days. I do not, however, lay much weight upon 

 this latter suggestion, chiefly because I think that the marks of 

 fire would have been more obvious and less ambiguous * than they 

 are if the lighting of a fire had been a very common practice with 

 the flint-miners. 



Part of the lower jaw of an ox (Bos longifrons) has come into my 

 hands from those of Mr. Park Harrison, with the note ' 16 feet/ 

 i.e. that of the level at which it lay in the pit, upon it ; and a 

 fragment of the femur of a tame pig (Sus scrqfa, var. domestica) 

 appears, though the labelling is a little indistinct, to have come 

 from a higher level, viz. that of 1 1 feet. 



The further history of this shaft has been obtained from the 

 postscript to Mr. Park Harrison's paper, * Journ. Anthrop. Instit.' 

 vol. vii. May 4th, 1878, p. 424 and pp. 431-433, and from additional 

 information furnished to me by that gentleman and by Dr. Kelly. 

 In following up the excavation of Shaft vi. (shown on the plan, PI. X, 

 I.e.), the workmen came first at a little distance above the level of 

 the skeleton, and, as was afterwards made out, over its left shoulder, 

 upon six flint implements of about 4 or 5 inches long, and subse- 

 quently upon the cist round the skeleton, and then upon the 

 skeleton itself. This skeleton is that of a man between twenty- 

 five and thirty, who had suffered from hemiplegia when a child, 

 but had sufficiently recovered to take an efficient share as a flints 

 miner in the labours of the surroundings in which his remains were 

 found. His had been a formal, that of the female from Cissbury, 

 already described by me ( f Journ. Anth. Inst.' vi. 1876, Article xix), 

 an accidental interment ; but the bones of the two skeletons and 

 the relics found in company with them show that their owners lived 

 probably about the same time, were themselves of about the same 

 age though not of the same sex, and followed the same avocations. 



I spoke (page 423) of the skeleton previously found in one of the 



1 Some of the black deposits which in other shafts had been supposed to have been 

 due to fire, turned out, when examined microscopically, to be of a vegetable nature, 

 and to be, possibly enough, identical with the Protococcus lugiibris of Professor Leidy, 

 of Philadelphia. 



