104 ANTIQUITIES OP ALDEKNEY. 



a short note in Clarke's Guernsey News of December 13th, 

 1889, to correct the exaggerated reports prevalent as to 

 the treasures he recovered. He came across an interment, 

 the boly buried in an extended position, i.e.^ as a corpse 

 is now placed in a coffin. He found one glass bead, and a 

 quantity of pottery so great that after the rough ware had 

 been put aside, four wine-cases full of broken pottery were 

 carried away to ('ambridge, forming parts of at least 100 

 vessels : also, one bronze coin of the Emperor Comniodus, 

 who died A.D. 196. He collected also some chips of glass, 

 a quantity of rough bricks, tiles and iron nails, two slender 

 finger-rings of bronze, a large bronze thimble, a portion 

 of a bone comb, and three bone pins. These articles are 

 now in the musenm at Cambridge. He says : " There are 

 no monoliths at Mannez, and no artificially wrought stones 

 worthy of the name now in Alderney. Two somewhat 

 inconspicuous and dilapidated cromlechs are the only megalithic 

 remains round Longy." 



As far as I am aware, these are the only articles hitherto 

 printed on the subject of Alderney antiquities. 



Very recently, the Admiralty decided to build Coastguard 

 cottages on the Miellcs Road on Longy Common, and in 

 1905, in digging a trench for drainage purposes from them 

 to the sea, bones and several ancient relics Avere discovered ; 

 these have been kindly presented to the Society, and they 

 are now safely lodged in the Guille-Alles Museum. They 

 are placed in two cases, because they were not found at 

 one time in one spot ; one collection occurred earlier in the 

 woidc and further from the sea than the other. The relative 

 positions in which they Avere found are fully described in 

 Mr. Mitchell's report published in the Transactions of 

 1905. I append a list. 



FIRST CONSIGNMENT. 



1. — Perfect skull. Length 6'9 in., breadth 5'6 in. Cephalic index 0"812 ; 

 Sub-brachy-cephalic. 



2. — Sknll in g-ood condition. Leng"th 6'9in., breadth 5'5in. Cephalic 

 index 0'797 ; Mesati-cephalic. 



3. — Skull dilapidated. Length VSin., breadth 5'4in. Cephalic index 

 0'739 ; Dolicho-cephalic ; it has a very ancient appearance. 



4. — Portions of jaws with teeth. 



5. — Yarious bones. 



6. — A perfect bronze ring 7i inches in diameter. 



7. — A bronze ring 8i inches diameter, broken ; one part is corroded 

 and attached to the collar-bone of one of the skeletons. 

 This bronze ring has an iron core. 



