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tive anatomical purposes : after which. I had a consultation with 

 a physician and a surgeon of the neigbourhood, for the purpose 

 of ascertaining how the proportions of primitive humanity corres- 

 ponded with those of the present date. The conclusion arrived at 

 was, that the skeleton was the frame of a man, who while living 

 was probably about 5 feet 9£ inches or 5 feet 10 inches high, 

 with an average development across the shoulders, and greater 

 than the present average across the hips." Mr Moffatt sent me 

 a photo of the skull, which is a profile view. Our artist (Mr 

 Murray) for a first attempt has made a direct engraving from 

 the photo, and although rather light, has fairly succeeded. — 

 Fig. 4. 



On July 27th, 1872, one of Mr Clark's servants ploughed up a 

 cist on Greenhill, on Ilderton estate. The cist was formed of 

 sandstone slabs and had a covering stone. There were no traces 

 of bones, which had entirely gone to decay. There was an urn 

 of the " Food-vessel type " in the interior. Mr Clark's gardener 

 recklessly dug into the cist with his spade, and broke the fragile 

 vessel into many pieces. The workmanship was very rude, of 

 baked clay, from £ to £ of an inch thick ; blackened in the interior 

 and of the colour of yellow porphyritic clay on the exterior. Scales 

 of mica like those in clay of decomposed Cheviot rocks were 

 discernible. I examined a large fragment which was afterwards 

 presented to Canon Greenwell, and I made a description of it, 

 but the Canon's is so much superior, that I quote it from the 

 Club's Hist., vol. VI., p. 419. It was partly flower pot, partly 

 cup-shaped. 



" It is 4| inches high, 5f inches wide at the mouth, and 2\ inches at 

 the bottom. On the inside of the top of the urn are two rows of small 

 oblong impressions running round it ; on the edge of the lip are diagonal 

 lines of twisted thong impressions, and below the lip arc similar but longer 

 impressions, placed diagonally- but in a reverse way to those on the edge ; 

 below this is a row of oblong impressions, and then three scries of thong 

 impressions; below this is a row of diagonal lines, but in a reverse way 

 to those above ; on the shoulder, so to call it, of the vase, is on each edge 

 a row of upright short lines, having between them two rows of oblong 

 impressions ; from thence to the bottom the vase is covered with encircling 

 lines, made by short pieces of twisted thong applied to the moist clay." 



Before leaving Ilderton, we must not pass over the indications 

 of British occupation and the sepulchral sites of the old people, 

 in Mr Henry MacLauchlan's " Survey of the Eastern Branch of 

 Watling Street," 1864, Sheet III. At Blackborough height 



