EARLY MAN 



xix. Malvern. Some flakes are in the Victoria Museum, 

 Worcester, which are said to have been found upon the Malvern 

 Hills, but neither the place of finding nor the date at which any 

 of them were found seems to be known. 



XX. Malvern. Further flakes have recently been found on 

 this range and are in private hands. 



xxi. Malvern. On the summit of the highest point of the 

 Malvern range — the Worcestershire Beacon, 1,390 feet — in Novem- 

 ber, 1849, the late Mr. Edwin Lees met with some of the Royal 

 Engineers who were engaged on the ordnance survey. They 

 showed him part of a human skull found three days before in 

 excavating on the summit of the Beacon to find the marks made as 

 a datum during the former survey. On uncovering the rock about 

 9 inches below the surface, on the outer edge towards the south 

 of the pile of loose stones, a small urn was found in a cavity of 

 the rock with some bones and ashes. The urn was placed in an 

 inverted position covering part of the ashes, and the half-burnt 

 bones lay near and around it. Its height is 2| inches, breadth at 

 the top 3 inches. The bottom is nearly | of an inch in thickness. 

 The impressed markings are very deficient in regularity. They 

 consist of a zigzag corded line both externally and within the lip 

 impressed on the surface. The urn is figured by Allies, p. 165. 

 On the north side of the same heap of stones another deposit of 

 bones was found, but no pottery. Both the bones in the urn and 

 the other deposit were examined with a microscope and found to 

 be adult human bones which had been partly burnt, 

 (c) Teme Valley. 



i. Lindridge. A greenish-coloured stone about 4I inches in 

 length by i inch in width and \ of an inch thick, perforated at 

 one end only with countersunk holes at each of the two corners, a 

 third hole between them being only partly drilled. The other end 

 is sharper and undrilled. Was found in a gravel pit at Lindridge. 

 It is now in the Victoria Museum, Worcester. 



ii. Broadwas. A holed celt is reported in the Proceedings of the 

 Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, i. p. 194, to have been found at the 

 Devil's Leap near Broadwas. 

 {ci) Mid-Worcestershire. 



i. Stoke Prior. Two armlets — one of large diameter with flat 

 broad ends and ornamented with punctured markings, the other 

 with a smaller diameter but more massive, broader and plain — were 

 found with the remains of a skeleton near Stoke Prior. The larger 

 one is now in the British Museum (Evans, p. 383, fig. 476). 



ii. Tutnall. 



[a) An early celt of felsite roughly shaped measuring 4I 

 inches in length, 2 inches in breadth at its wider end and 

 1 1 inches at its narrower. It is | of an inch thick. 



{b) A holed stone hammer formed of a brownish water- 

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