650 



EXCAVATIONS IN AN ANCIENT 



Skeletons supposed to have ( Men 

 belonged to Anglo-Saxons, \ 

 though found withcmt re- ) 



hcs 



Romano-Britons of elon. 

 gated oval capacious type, 

 called 'Cimbric' by Retz- 

 ius, 'Ethnologische Schrif- 

 ten,' p. io8 . . . . 



Romano-Britons of globose 

 or 'Sion' type, the male 

 crania of great size occa- 

 sionally, and the female 

 in only one instance ap- 

 proaching the larger male 

 crania in dimensions . 



Women 



Men 



Women 



Men 



Women 



Male skeleton of enlarged River-bed type (Old) 



Skeletons the type of which 

 has not been determined, the 

 bones having been too much 

 injured by water- wear or 

 otherwise 



Men 



^1 



Women 



Sex undetermined 



Old . . 



Middle-aged 



Young 



Old . . 



Young 



Old . . 



Middle-aged 



Young 



Old . 



Middle-aged 



Young 



Old . 



Middle-aged 



Young 



Old . 



Middle-aged 



Young 



1} 3J 



;)„l 



Old . 



Young 



Old . 



Yoimg 



/ Old 



Young 





4 ) 



{Infants 

 Within period of first dentition . 

 From period of commencement of second dentition 

 that of puberty 



ion to 'W • 23 



Total 



Of which 123 there are - 



30 children 



25 old men 



13 old women 



19 young women .... 

 15 young men . . . ' . 

 8 middle-aged men .... 



3 middle-aged women 



2 old persons of undetermined sex 



4 young persons of undetermined sex 



3 adults from urns .... 

 I urn unopened .... 



Of which 123- 



48 are men. 

 35 are women. 



FIXED POINTS FOR ARGUING AS TO DATE AND NATIONALITY 

 OF THE SKELETONS FOUND AT FRILFORD. 



I. Coins. 



In leaden coffin No. i, Jan. 1867, five coins, of which one was a coin of Constantine 



the younger, one a coin of Valens, one a coin of Gratian. 

 In the leaden coffin opened by J. Y. Akerman, Esq. F.S.A., Oct. 1864, and also in one 



of the graves opened by him at the same time, a coin of Constantine I. was 



found. 

 In the point where graves xvii and xviii of Jan. 20 and Feb. 8, 1868, intersected, a 



coin of Constans was found. Possibly accidentally fallen in. 



