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top and bottom, but 

 the band encircling the 

 pot is rougher and is or- 

 namented by burnished 

 oblique lines. Within 

 a foot of the vessel and 

 on its N. side several 

 flat-headed iron nails 

 (No. 265), originally 

 about 2|ins. long, were 

 found within a small 

 area (Plate II.). Wood, 

 resembling oak, still 

 adheres to them. 



The skull may be 

 described as medium- 

 headed, approaching 

 round, being rounder 

 than that of the R.B. 

 skeleton found in Cut- 

 ting XVIII. The hori- 

 zontal circumference of 



the skulls is the same. The occipital protuberance is abnor- 

 mally developed ; the internal ridge at this point is also very 

 prominent — the thickness of the skull here being 20'5mm. 



The skull (Cutting XXVII.) has a remarkably powerful 

 lower jaw with square chin and wide angle, the bigonial 

 breadth being 113mm. (the average of eight lower jaws of 

 the Romano-British period found by Pitt-Rivers in Wor 

 Barrow being 97mm.). The ridges for the attachment of 

 muscles are enormously developed, and the maximum thick- 

 ness of the jaw is 18-5mm. 



The bones are very massive and thick, and the muscular 

 attachments well developed. The thighs are deeply arched 

 and have very pronounced longitudinal ridges. The 

 estimated stature, calculated from femora plus tibiae, is 

 6ft. Ofin. 



Fig. 1. — Earthenware Pot of the 

 Romano-British period, found in 

 association with the human skeleton 

 in Cutting XXVII., 



Maumbury Rings, 1912. 



{From a Drawing; hij Mr. E. SpranhUng.) 



