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Notes: — 1. On a Human Skeleton, with Prehistoric 
Objects, found at Great Caster ton, Rutland. 2. On a 
Stone Cist containing a Skeleton and an Urn, found 
at Largs, Ayrshire. By Dr Robert Munro. With 
a Report on the Urn, by the Hon. John Abercromby ; 
and on the Skulls, by Professor D. J. Cunningham. 
(Read March 19, 1906. MS. received May 18, 1906.) 
I. The following is an extract from a letter dated November 
18th, 1905, which I received from Y. B. Crowther-Beynon, Esq., 
F.S.A., Hon. Secretary of the Rutland Archaeological and Natural 
History Society : — “ I should be most sincerely grateful to you if 
you could give me the benefit of your opinion on the skull of 
which I send some photos (fig. 1). I have been comparing it with 
those illustrated in your ‘Fossil Man’ chapter in Prehistoric 
Problems , and it seems to me that it is not without interest. I 
am no craniologist or anatomist, and can bring no scientific 
knowledge of that kind to bear on the matter.” 
In replying to Mr Crowther-Beynon’s letter,* I stated that it 
would be impossible to form an opinion having any scientific value 
from photos alone ; but that, if he sent the skull to Edinburgh, 
Dr Cunningham, Professor of Anatomy in the University of 
Edinburgh, who makes a special study of physical anthropology, 
would examine the specimen and report on its special character- 
istics. Along with the skull, my correspondent sent the following 
graphic and lucid account of the position and circumstances in 
which the specimen was found, as well as of the objects supposed 
to have been associated with it : — 
“In August 1905, some quarrymen in the employ of Mr 
Woolston of Stamford at a freestone quarry situated at Great 
Casterton, on the extreme eastern border of Rutland, struck into 
a fissure or swallow-hole (‘gull’ in the local phraseology) in the 
rock which was filled with clay. In the course of removing the 
clay a discovery of human bones was made at a depth of about 
17 feet 6 inches from the original surface-level. The fissure was 
