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Lancashire was occupied by the Northumbrians immediately 
after the battle of Chester, and that the Northumbrian 
dominion embraced mid-Lancashire shortly after the fall of 
Elmet, and finally that the Welsh occupying the more north- 
ern portions were subdued about the years 670-685 A.D- 
And it must be remarked that the cause of the Celtic popu- 
lation of Strathclyde remaining to this day in the portions 
latest conquered, in Cumberland and the south-west of Scot- 
land, while it has disappeared from south Lancashire, is due 
to the change in the religion of the conquerors on the 
interval between the two conquests. When the battle 
of Chester laid south Lancashire at the feet of iEthel- 
frith, the English were worshippers of Thor and Odin. 
When Carlisle was taken by Ecfritlf, they were Christians 
warring against men of their own faith. In the one case 
the war was one of extermination, in the other merely of 
conquest. 
“On some Human Bones found at Buttington, Mont- 
gomeryshire,” by W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 
Among some papers which have lately demanded my 
attention, there is one relating to the discovery of human 
bones in Buttington Church-yard, a hamlet near Welshpool, 
Montgomeryshire, which is worthy of being placed on 
record, and being brought into relation with history. In 
the year 1838 the late Rev. R. Dawkins, the incumbent of 
the parish, made a most remarkable discovery of human 
remains while digging the foundations for a new schoolroom 
at the south-west corner of the church-yard, and in making 
a path leading from it to the church door. He discovered 
three pits, one containing two hundred skulls, and two 
others containing exactly one hundred each; the sides of the 
pits being lined with the long bones of the arms and the 
legs. Two other pits contained the smaller bones, such as 
the vertebrae and those of the extremities. All the teeth 
were wonderfully perfect, and the condition of the skulls 
