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pondence with Sir Jolin Evans, an authority, and he showed him 

 some studs of a pattern exactly the same as these brooches. The 

 latter, he thinks, are 2,000 years old at all events. They had 

 been evidently used to fasten a shroud around the waist. They 

 rested upon the pelvis, which contained traces of discoloration in 

 consequence. He (Mr. lago) had measured many of the skele- 

 tons as they lay upon the ground, and had come to the conclusion 

 that the people buried there were from about 5 feet and a few 

 inches up to 5 feet 8 inches. Dr. John Beddoe had measured 

 some of the skeletons and skulls also, and had tabulated the 

 results, and would supply them with a report. He said the 

 skulls represented people of a very old race, and were of the kind 

 which existed before the rounder head of the Bronze people. 

 Only one appeared to be of a different period. So they seemed 

 to be descended to the Bronze period, and kept up their old 

 Neolithic customs of burial. The Harlyn Cemetery, at all events, 

 showed one thing, that in the early times in which these people 

 lived, they did as people of modei'n times were doing — ^used the 

 same burial ground over and over again. Thus in some points 

 the graveyard earth had become full of bones, all mixed and 

 confused. Professor Miiller had made some valuable plans and 

 sections of some of the graves, which in some places were 

 four deep. One grave made with eight slabs contained various 

 bodies. Near the heads of the bodies, in most cases, had been 

 found a little parcel of charcoal, flint, and felspar. At that 

 period there was no need for fire for cremation, but it might have 

 been thought that when persons were buried and left in the 

 cold they might find that for their journey to the next world a fire 

 would be nice, and, as in the case of the woman, they gave her 

 her spindle whorl to make thread with, so they gave the man a 

 little fuel as provision for the way. 



The Chairman asked Professor Miiller if he thought it 

 possible to produce fire by the use of the felspar and flint? 

 Mr. Iago said he had tried it, and struck a fine spark. 



On the conclusion of Mr. lago's remarks, Mr. Trevail said 

 they had had a most interesting address, but he thought the dates 

 were rather confused. The date Mr. Iago put at 2,000 years ago 

 — 100 years before Christ — and the Bronze before that. Mr. 



