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38. On a Hitman Skull and Limb-bones found in the Paleolithic 

 Terrace-gravel at Galley Hill, Kent. By E. T. Newton, 

 Esq., E.R.S., F.G.S. (Read May 22nd, 1895.) 



[Plate XVI.] 



Contents. 



Page 



I. Introduction 505 



II. .Description of the Remains 505 



III. The Galley Hill Skeleton compared with other Races 510 



1. British Fossil Human Remains 510 



2. Continental Fossil Human Remains 512 



3. Living Races of Men 514 



4. General Remarks on the possible Affinities of the Galley Hill 



Remains 516 



IV. Remarks on the xige of the Gravels in which the Human Remains 



were found 518 



I. Introduction. 



At a time when so much attention is being directed to the imple- 

 ments made by Palaeolithic Man, the discovery of a human skeleton 

 in the Palaeolithic gravels of this country cannot but awaken much 

 interest. The remains which form the subject of the present com- 

 munication have been submitted to me for description by Mr. Robert 

 Elliott, of Camberwell, whose enthusiasm as a collector of flint- 

 implements and other antiquities is well known to many of us, as 

 is also the fine collection of these relics which he has with much 

 labour brought together. It was in the year 1888, on one of his 

 journeys in search of ' implements,' that Mr. Elliott discovered parts 

 of a human skeleton in the gravel yielding Palaeolithic implements, 

 which, at a height of about 90 feet above the Thames, overlies the 

 Chalk at Galley Hill, INbrthneet. The particulars of this discovery 

 are given in a letter from Mr. Elliott, which will be found at 

 p. 518. The interest of the discovery has seemed to me sufficient 

 to justify a full account of it being placed on record, so that all 

 attendant circumstances may be known, and everyone interested 

 in the matter placed in a position to draw his own conclusions as 

 to the age of these human remains. 



II. Description of the Remains. 



The portions of the skeleton which have been recovered are : 

 a large part of the skull, wanting the facial bones ; the right half 

 of the lower jaw still retaining the grinding teeth; both 

 femora and parts of both tibiae; a clavicle, wanting the ex- 

 tremities; the shaft of a humerus ; fragments of the pelvis and 

 sacrum, as well as some pieces of ribs. All the bones are much 

 decayed and denuded, while their outer surfaces are marked all over 

 by vermiform depressions, such as are generally thought to be the 



