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is being organised, for which the scheme of this Committee has been 

 adopted. 



The Committee hope to come to an agreement, as far as possible, 

 with the German and Vienna Anthropological Societies, who are about 

 to hold an Anthropometric Conference at Heilbronn, with the view of 

 securing uniformity in methods of measurement. 



The Committee ask to be reappointed with a grant of 51. to cover 

 expenses of correspondence, &c. 



A Prehistoric Site at Bishops Stort ford. —Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor W. Eidgeway (Chairman), Rev. Dr. A. 

 Irving (Secretary), Dr. A. C. Haddon, and Dr. H. W. Marett 

 Tims, appointed to co-operate with a Local Committee in the excava- 

 tion thereof. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



The early facts which suggested the prehistoric interest of this site 

 were brought to light in the excavation of a boggy patch of ground in 

 the high flank of the Stort Valley at nearly 300' O.D., the idea being 

 the formation of a ' lily-pond ' to improve the ground above Maple 

 Avenue as a building-site. In this way, by the care of the experienced 

 workman, F. Curtis, the complete horse skeleton (on which a paper 

 was read last year to Section H by myself, the cogent geological facts 

 being treated in a paper read before Section C) was uncovered, in the 

 exact position indicated in the photographs. The ' finds ' on the actual 

 site, taken altogether, suggest its occasional and repeated occupation 

 by nomadic peoples (attracted by the high-level spring, to which the 

 physiographic details of the locality are due) after the fashion of a 

 modern gipsy-camp. 



In 1910 the following gentlemen formed themselves into a local 

 committee for the. further exploration of the site where the horse 

 skeleton was unearthed : Eev. A. Irving, D.Sc, B.A. (Chairman and 

 Secretary); J. Dockray, Esq., M.D., B.Sc. ; W. Hartigan, Esq., M.D. ; 

 Eev. H. Hollingworth, M.A. ; A. W. Nash, Esq., M.A. ; F. S. Young, 

 Esq., M.A. ; Mr. H. G. Featherby, C.E. ; Mr. Joseph Day (the pro- 

 prietor). In response to the appeal made at the time subscriptions to 

 the amount of 11. 2s. were received. Of this sum 61. 2s. was expended 

 for skilled labour and contingent expenses. Subsequent subscriptions 

 have brought the amount (paid and promised) up to 11Z. 18s. The total 

 expenditure up to the end of July 1911 has been 11. 2s., leaving a 

 balance of 4L 16s. in the hands of the Secretary for further work. 



In the autumn of 1909 the geological structure of the hill was more 

 fully determined by two borings on Mr. Day's land and two on Sir 

 John Barker's land above. The facts thus ascertained confirm generally 

 those previously known from the two well-sections at the waterworks 

 350 yards distant. (See ' Mem. Geol. Survey,' vol. iv., p. 449.) In 

 May 1910 the pond was drained and the bottom of it thoroughly 

 explored. The mud was first scraped off the bottom and passed by two 



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