ALDERNEY ARCHEOLOGY. 53 



acquaint you that they are pleased to accede to your request 

 that the further ethnographical remains which have been 

 discovered whilst excavations were in progress at Essex Hill 

 Coastguard Station, Alderney, may be handed over to the 

 Guernsey Society of Natural Science. 



For the information of the Society, herewith is forwarded 

 copy of a Report by the Superintending Civil Engineer, 

 H.M. Breakwater, Portland, giving a short description as to the 

 position and condition in which the relics were found. The 

 relics are at present at Portland, and instructions have been 

 given for them to be sent direct to your address, and for you to 

 be notified of the date of their despatch. 



I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 



C. I. Thomas. 

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

 Guernsey. 



From Superintending Civil Engineer, 



H.M. Breakwater, Portland, 



29th July, 1905. No. 3141/4655. 



To the Director of Works, 



Admiralty, London, S.W. 



Reference D.W. 12. 7. 05. 9860/6213. 



Alderney s Discovery of Further Ethnographical 



Remainsm 



In reply to the above quoted minute, I beg to report that a 

 further find of two skulls, together Avith other bones and rings, 

 and an old spear head, has been made, as reported in my 

 submission of the 10th instant. 



2. The skulls and bones were found lying side by side, 

 about east and west, the heads pointing to the west. No 

 indications of their having l)een in coffins were found in this 

 instance. They were buried four feet below the surface, in 

 clean sand : no stones covered them, neither was there 

 anything worthy of note in their immediate surroundings. 

 The neck ring and the smaller one w^ere found with these 

 remains. As in the former instance the whole of the bones 

 were not removed, as the trench in which they were found was 

 only two feet wide, and ran across the bodies. The old spear 

 head was also found in the trench about twenty feet from the 

 bodies, and at about the same depth. 



(Sgd.), G. P. Hayes, 



Superintending Civil Engineer. 



