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Donations to the Museum and Library. 



visiting the spot. The crania were much mutilated, but Dr. Thurnam 

 has kindly examined them and reports that one is the skull of a man, 

 and two those of women. They are of the lengthened oval, or doli- 

 chocephalic form, such as are generally found in the long barrows of 

 Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Dr. Thurnham gives the measure- 

 ment of these crania in his paper, u On the Two principal Forms of 

 Ancient British Skulls/'' 1 From this table (Table II.), it appears 

 that the male skull has the breadth-index as low as *68, and the 

 two female skulls that of '71 and *74 respectively. 



On digging in the centre of the barrow a cist six feet eight inches 

 in depth, and about two feet wide, by three feet long, was discovered. 

 It contained no traces whatever of human remains or art, excepting 

 a few wood-ashes, and these may have fallen in accidentally. It is 

 probable that this part of the barrow had been rifled at some former 

 period. A fragment of a bone implement was found in the upper 

 part of the barrow, just under the turf, and a rude, but well-worn 

 muller, of sarsen-stone — both had been partially burnt. I had 

 trenches dug on the north and north-east sides of the barrow, but 

 no traces of any interment were seen. 



April 22, 1864. W. C. 



citations to tjre ||featm anir |Kkatjn 



The Council have the pleasure of acknowledging the following Donations : — 



A Water Colour Drawing of Malmesbury Abbey. From John Godwin, Esq. 



Roman and other Coins. From Mrs. Tanner, ( Fatebbury,) Marshall Hall, 

 Esq., and Admiral Montagu. 



From the latter donor a Pamphlet on Portland Breakwater, 1816. 



A Photograph of the last Wiltshire Bustard. By Mr. Grant. 



Davis's " Origines Divi&ianoe'''' 1754. By Eev. Canon Jackson. 



The following have also been received. " Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries 

 of London, to December, 1870." " Journal of Historical and Archaeological 

 Association of Ireland, April and July, 1871." "Transactions of Essex 

 Archaeological Society, vol. v., pt. 1." "Proceedings of Somersetshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society," for 1869 and 1870. 



Memoirs of Anthropological Society of London. Vol. i., p. 473. 



