ALDERNEY ARCHEOLOGY. 4? 



Admiralty, 

 21, Northumberland Avenue, W.C., 

 20th March, 1905. 

 Sir, 



I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 

 IGth March, 1905, on the subject of Human Remains discovered 

 at Alderney. 



I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 

 E. Raban, 



Director of Works. 



E. D. Marquand, Esq., A.L.S., 

 Guernsey. 



Admiralty, London, 



19th May, 1905. 

 Sir, 



With reference to yom^ letter dated 16th March, 1905, I am 

 commanded hj My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to 

 acquaint you that they are pleased to accede to the request that 

 the ethnographical relics recently discovered in Alderney 

 might be handed to the Guernsey Society of Natural Science, 

 for deposit in the Guernsey Museum. 



For the information of the Society, a copy of the Report 

 of the local representative of the Admiralty at Alderney is 

 forwarded herewith, giving a short description of the manner 

 in which the relics were discovered. Instructions shall be 

 given for the relics to be carefully packed and forwarded, upon 

 receipt of the address to which you wish them sent. 

 I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



Evan Macgregor. 

 E. D. Marquand, Esq., Guernsey. 



[REPORT.] 



H.M. Breakwater, Alderney, 

 14th March, 1905. 



Alderney : New Goastguarti Station m 

 ArchsBOiogicai Rentainsm 



With reference to D.W. 1171/905, 8. 3. 05, attached, the 

 remains above referred to have been sent direct to Head Office 

 by boat to-day, and D.W. informed. 



The skulls forwarded were three in number. Those 

 numbered 1 and 2 were found with other bones, side by side, 

 about one foot apart, and one raised about three inches above 

 the other, lying about east and west, the heads pointing to the 



