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CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 641 



X. Child, much decayed. Early period of first dentition. 



xi. Calvaria, man, middle age, with pot and flint. Long bones much Water-worn. 

 Elongated British type. No lower nor upper jaw. 



xii. Old man. Face upwards, and left aim across body. About middle of ' fall * and 

 to right of viii and xi. Elongated British type, but vertically carinate like the 

 preceding specimen. The crossing of the arms may point to his being an Anglo- 

 Saxon. See xxii, Jan. 6, 1869. 



Old woman. Calvaria and femora, 16.7 in. Osteophytes and pacchionian pits. 

 Water-worn. * Sion'type, Compare vi of April i, 1868; xi of April i, 1868 ; 

 vi of May, 1867. 



Old woman. Skeleton sent by carrier. Eight humerus, 1 1.7 ; left, 1 1-2. Femur, 

 13.4. Anglo-Saxon woman, 

 children, i young man, i middle-aged man, i old man, 2 old women, = 9 bodies. 



January 20, 1868. 



Knife, with much rust and (?) woody fibre adhering to it. Found close to xii in 

 the loose earth which had fallen to the bottom of the pit. Could this knife have 

 belonged to the little old woman, xiv (?) ; see skull, which is much more like that 

 of the Anglo-Saxon woman xiii of May, 1867 ? 



xvi. Urn, a little to the left of the knee of xiii of January 15. The urn unopened. 



xvii. Skeleton of woman {young). Her tibia was i ft. beneath the humerus of an 

 Anglo-Saxon, xviii, who was lying in a direction from S. S.S.W, to N. N.N.W. 

 and at right angles to her grave, which was in the ordinary Romano-British 

 direction from W.N.W. to E.S.E. In the intersection of the graves a beautiful 

 coin of Constans was found. Left radius injured during life and repaired. Both 

 humeri malformed. With this came part of upper jaw of old person, with three 

 teeth from canines inclusive backwards, of elongated Romano-British type. 

 Stature, 4 ft. 1 1 in. 



I young woman, i age and sex uncertain, = 2 bodies. 



February^, 1868. 



xviii. Anglo-Saxon young man, with umbo, spear, knife (no buckle), Roman tiles, 

 stones round grave ; coin of Constans in intersection of his grave with that of xvii ; 

 some animal's (sheep ?) bones in grave (see Akerman, ' Pagan Saxondom,' Introd. 

 p. xvii) ; grave from head S. S.S.W. to N. N.N.E. ; foot at right angles to grave 

 xvii 2 ft. deep ; xvii 3 ft. A tooth of ox between head of Anglo-Saxon and feet 

 of Romano-British woman. Femora only partially recovered, a large stone over 

 their lower ends having crushed them very much. Fragments of g^eat size. 

 Clavicles long and curved. Humerus, 13-1; radius, 9-3. For Roman tilings, 

 see * Archiv fur Anthropologic,' i. 3, 356 ; (see xxii of Jan. 6, 1869). 



xix. Man, strong, leyond middle life, prohaUy. Head of River-bed type, parietal 

 protuberance. Ribs broken and repaired in life ; abscess at root of one molar. A 

 good deal of exostosis on left humerus. Copper staining on jaw, and clavicle. No 

 nails found with body. Romano-British direction of grave. See p. 628, supra. 



XX. SJcull of middle-aged man, with Roman tile. Very elongated, with long bones. 

 Bones loose. Skull peculiarly elongated. 



xxi. Skull of young man, found with vertebra of ruminant in grave, and a fragment 



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