636 EXCAVATrONS IN AN ANCIENT 



intermarriage between the invaders and the invaded ; and the 

 craniographer who considers what very motley hordes passed into 

 England under the names ' Roman ' and ' Saxon ' respectively, and 

 for what long periods these immigrations continued to be made, 

 will be cautious as to his inferences. Other disturbing conditions 

 were introduced by the invasions specified : among them I need 

 only mention the establishment of an antithesis between town and 

 country life, which, in a country intersected by woods and ill- 

 provided with roads, is equivalent to the establishment of an 

 antithesis between civilisation and savagery. Isolation, howsoever 

 produced, whether by social, by political, or by physical barriers, 

 tends to exaggerate the ethnical or tribal characteristics which 

 intercrossing tends to obliterate. But a subjective cause of much 

 fallacy lies in the curiously corresponding psychological fact that 

 one class of mind is as prone to overrate distinctions as another is 

 to underrate differences. 



In conclusion, I must be allowed to express my sense of the 

 obligations I have incurred to Professor Phillips, whose advice and 

 opinion I have very constantly sought ; to Professor Pearson, whom 

 I have consulted well nigh as frequently; to Heathcote Wynd- 

 ham, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Merton College, who has given me 

 assistance upon several chemical and mineralogical points which 

 arose in the course of my investigations ; to James Parker, Esq., 

 for suggestions as to several archaeological matters ; and to Charles 

 Robertson, Esq., for superintending these disinterments upon several 

 occasions when I was unable to be present. 



CATALOGUE OF FRILFORD EXCAVATIONS. 



October and November, 1 864. 



I. Set. Cranium, A . Found with a fibula 2 ft. above it, wrongly described by me as 

 a male skull in 'Proc. Soc. Antiq.' 2 ser. iii. 139. Probably an Anglo-Saxon 

 woman. Middle-aged. 



Cranium B. Found with a small Roman coin. Probably, from this and from ana- 

 tomical characters, a Romano-British woman. Middle-aged. Elongated oval 

 type. 



iower jaw from leaden coffin No. i. Roman man. C. Middle-aged. In this leaden 

 coffin a coin of Constantino the Great was found. 



