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vi. Skull with a few hroJcen lonrj hones of old woman, very like a modem Swiss skuli 

 768 B, in Oxford Museum, with a cephalic index of 82. The oblique dip awa\ 

 of the posterior half of the parietal makes its distinctive character from the 

 Anglo-Saxon xiii of May, 1867, and the skull xiv of Jan. 16, 1868. It is shorter 

 and broader than the River-bed type, but its longitudinal arc has the same 

 contour. Again, No. vi of 1867, with cephalic index 79, resembles it very much, 

 and by vi of May, 1867, we pass to vi of Sept. 17, 1867, with cephalic index 78, 

 and to the female skull or calvaria xi of April i, 1868, xiii of Jan. 15, 1868. 

 vii. A child's ahull, removed by the men. First dentition only. 



viii. Young woman 25 ^0 30, sJcull and long bones, found near child with two amber 

 beads. Skull of Romano-British, elongated, coronally-constricted type. See 

 * Crania Britannica,' Plate LVIII. Wisdom-teeth not through the gum, though 

 the crista is anchylosed to the ilium. 

 ix. ShuU of woman 25 to 30, found with a coin which is lost, and in last grave but 

 one on right side, whence came the child with the two amber beads. Osteophytes 

 on inner surface of skull. Femur, 16.5 in.; tibia, 13.6 in.; stature, 5 ft. 2 in. 

 x. Fragments of sTcull of old person, 'probably female. No history ; found in 'fall ' with 

 fragments of Roman pottery; skull of platycephalic type with the posterior 

 sagittal ' rainure,' supposed to characterize Celts and Scandinavians. See ' Bull. 

 Soc. Anthrop. de Paris,' 1863, p. 319; 1864, p. 283. Internally, in correspond- 

 ence with this, is a very deep furrow for the longitudinal sinug ; showing of 

 course that the bottom of the two furrows outside and inside the skull corresponds 

 to a line of arrested growth, and that the skull has grown out on either side in 

 lines of the parietal tubera, to fit itself to the growing brain. In other skulls, as 

 for example skull No. ii of March 23, 1868, this parietal vallecula on the 

 exterior corresponds with raised ridge along the line of the longitudinal sinus. 

 See * Jour, of Anatomy and Phys.' iii. 253, 1868, also Article xiii, p. 159. 

 xi. Skull and long bones of old ivoman ? from extreme right of quarry ; of globose 

 Romano-British type, resembling skull No. vi of Sept. 1867, and vi of April i, 

 1868, and vi of April, 1867. Femur, 14.5 in.; stature, 4ft. 6 in. 

 xii. Child with first set of teeth — removed by me. Romano-British direction of grave. 

 2 old men, 2 adults ? 6, i young man, i boy 1 2, 3 children, 4 old women, 2 young 

 women, = 15 bodies. 



September 24, 1868. 



^ The excavations on this day were carried on 

 upon two patches of ground which Mr. Aid- 

 worth had observed to have stronger and 

 greener com growing upon them than was to 

 be seen elsewhere. Great quantities of the 

 bones of the domestic animals, exclusive of the 

 horse but including the dog, were found, to- 

 gether with the articles specified and numbered. 

 No human remains were observed however. 

 These spots appear to have been the rubbish- 

 pits of some house of a person of considerable 

 wealth, an 'eques.' See Pearson, 'History of 

 England,' i. 45 ; and Coote, ' Neglected Fact in 

 _ English History,' pp. 40-45, cit. in loco. 

 Coin. One of the many coins imitated from Roman originals in 5th and 6th 

 centuries. Very common in England. 



i. Key of Roman type . . . . 

 ii. Stag's-hom hair pin . • . . 



iii. Bronze ring 



iv. Two knives 



V. Spoon 



vi. Coin-shaped Kimmeridge shale 



