APPENDIX. 941 



Messrs. Johnson and Clarke say that close to the dogs in the same 

 hole were — 



' remains of ox, pig, roe-deer, pike and some other sort of fish, teal, crane, wild swan, 

 and horse, and various sorts of pottery. One mass apparently consisted of woody 

 fibres and oxidized iron. We also found half a spindle-whorl, and Johnson picked up 

 a bone needle on a rubbish^heap close by, which may have come from the alluvium or 

 gravel. The long bones of the ox were split and broken, as if for the purpose of 

 getting the marrow out. Some few pieces of bone show signs of having passed through 

 the fire.' 



The following note on a skeleton exposed in a grave opened in 1875 

 was made by W. Hatchett Jackson, Esq. ; — 



*Wytham, Sept. 17, 1875. The body lay with the head pointing S.E. by S. It 

 was stretched at full length, perfectly straight. The head was about i ft. 6 in. below 

 the surface, and lay with the upper part of the body in mould, while the legs and feet 

 lay in the gravel. The feet were about 2 ft. 3 in. below the surface, as nearly as could 

 be judged. 



' The head was fallen forwards on the breast. The thyroid cartilage was slightly 

 ossified, but tumbled to pieces in the carriage, the bony matter being barely of paper 

 thickness. The left arm lay along the side of the body, palm uppermost. The right 

 arm had been folded across the body, and its fingers lay partly in, partly across the 

 pelvic cavity. When I saw the body, the workmen had broken one leg, and the feet 

 were gone from both legs. The position of the bones however showed that the left 

 leg had lain across the right, in the position of the recumbent figures commonly called 

 Knight Crusaders. The workmen had saved some of the bones of the feet. The 

 skull and pelvis had been cracked. 



' No pottery or any other remains lay upon the body, or very near it. A small piece 

 of broken pottery lay in the gravel.' 



The skeleton in relation to which the amber-beads were found was 

 exposed on March 18, 1878, in a grave about one foot in depth, the 

 superficial gravel being slightly excavated. The head was at the south, 

 the jaw pointing east ; body on right side, hips and knees bent. On this 

 find Dr. Kolleston has noted : — 



' This is a semi-contracted position such as is usually supposed to characterise the 

 British skeleton. But some Saxon bodies, or Teutonic at least, are found in the East 

 Riding thus contracted, and there can be no doubt that the amber-beads with worked 

 flattened approximal surfaces are Saxon.' 



In addition to the graves two larger openings were found in the gravel. 

 In a plan of the Wytham gravel-pits, prepared in January 1870 by Sir 

 Henry Dryden, the one of these pits which is said not to be excavated is 

 marked on the east side of the pit : another and larger pit was on the 

 south side. On it Sir H. Dryden has made the following note : — 



* Opening excavated Jan. 26, and appeared to be the remainder of a circular pit, pro- 

 bably covered in and used as a habitation. The floor was hardened gravel, partly a 

 naturally hard bed in the gravel, partly hardened artificially and by exposure. In 



