TO WHICH A TUMULUS BELONGS. 



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bronze, no less than 29 contained also stone implements, 

 many of which were extremely rude. Evidently, therefore, 

 the mere presence of one or two objects of stone is in itself 

 no sufficient reason for referring any given interment to the 

 Stone age. The following tabular statement of 297 inter- 

 ments recorded by Mr. Bateman will, however, I think, be 

 found interesting : 



These interments are all from the counties of Derby, Staf- 

 ford, and York.. In his work on Ancient Wiltshire, Sir E. 

 C. Hoare records the examination of 267 interments, which 

 may be tabulated in. a similar manner as follows : 



"We see that in this latter table nearly all the cases of 

 bronze were in interments preceded by cremation, but in 



