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xxvi. Lower jav) of old person, with six teeth. 



xxvii. Bones of old woman, Dec. 31, 1867. Elongated British type. Femur, 15 in. 

 Stature, 4 ft. 8 in. Coffin hooping and nails found in grave. 



xxvii'. Fragments of an urn of Anglo-Saxon ware, said to have been found with a 



burnt bone, Dec. 31, 1867. 

 I old woman, 3 old men, 1 old person (sex ?), 3 young women, 2 young persons (sex ?), 



I young man, 2 children, i middle-aged woman, = 14 bodies. 



September 16, 17, 18, 1867. 



IV Set. i. Calvaria and hones of old woman from a grave running from N.N.W, by 

 N.W. to S.S.E. by S.E. 3 ft. 2 in. deep down to the coralline oolite. A burnt 

 flint, some pseudo-Samian ware, and some gray lathe-turned pottery, were found 

 in the grave with her. Femur, i6f in, Radius, 8| in. Stature, 5 ft. i| in. Of 

 enlarged ' River-bed ' type. Lower jaw nearly destroyed by water- wear. 



ii. Similar calvaria from continuation of same trench. * Cylindrocephalic 'v female 

 skull. Stature, 5 ft. 4 in. Femur, 17 in. 



iii. Shull and long hones of young man of elongated British type, from continuation of 

 same trench. A sheep's tooth close by his jaws, and two flints. Stature, 5 ft. 

 10 in. Right fibula a good deal curved, epiphyses not fused. 



iv. Shull of young Anglo-Saxon, found with spear and umbo. The spear at right 

 side of head with point upwards. This had been a secondary interment, the 

 upper jaw of a very old man (iv») having been found close to this skull, as 

 also a manubrium stemi with articular facet for first left rib much enlarged, 

 which could not have belonged to this skeleton. The grave was broader than 

 the others, and had large stones set along its sides. Its direction wasW.N.W. 

 to E. S.E. 



iv'. Upper jaw of old person, prohahly male. Sternum and large head of humerus and 

 OS calcis with it. 



V. Skull of very old man, with skeleton, from continuation of trench whence the 

 Anglo-Saxon No. iv came. The direction of the grave the same, but no relics 

 nor any stones set around it. Skull like iv and xi of March 17, and i of March 

 23, 1868. A mixed form combining the Hohberg with the Sion type. Can these 

 skulls have belonged to Christian Anglo-Saxons ? See p. 616, supra. Femur, 

 1 8 in. Stature, 5 ft. 8 in. 



vi. Skull of old man of 'Sion' type, found with skeleton at a depth of 15 inches 

 below the patterned urn ix, the urn occupying a space corresponding with the 

 top of the sacrum of the skeleton below. Skull bones a little roughened by 

 water-wear, but also strongly made, and indicating, as do the other bones also, 

 both age and great strength by their various outstanding processes. Ceph. 

 index, 78. Stature, 5 ft. 8 in. Found with several pieces of flint and with 

 pieces of pottery. 



vii. Skeleton of very old man, of elongated Romano-British type. A typical skull 

 such as No. 5709 in Royal College of Surgeons, which belonged to an ' ancient 

 aboriginal inhabitant of Scandinavia regarded as the Celt ; ' and called ' dolicho- 

 cephalic by the donor. Professor Retzius.' Found in a trench between the trench 

 with skeleton No. vi in it to the south, and the one with the Anglo-Saxon No. iv 

 in it to the north. Femur, 19I in. Stature, 5 ft. 11 in. Osseous upgrowth of 

 acetabulum, and hypertrophy of head of femur to correspond. Cephalic index, 72. 



