#it u Cranitim anb Jiiman 
from ^ingstan ^agpti^e, near 
Jbingboit, 
By JOHN BBDDOE, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 
I 
T his skull belonged to one of several bodies which 
were recently discovered at a depth of about three 
feet in the earth during some excavations made by Mr. 
Guy Graham, occupier of the land. Kingston Bagprize 
lies about five miles to the west of Abingdon, and between 
two and three miles south of the Thames ; the land be- 
longs to Mr. J. Noble C. Pope, to whose kindness I am 
indebted for the opportunity of seeing and examining 
the bones. Mr. Graham informs me that the bodies dis- 
covered, of which there were several, lay east and west, 
with the feet to the east ; they were in the natural earth, 
without any appearance of cist, coffin, or other receptacle. 
Mr. Graham thinks that the buriers dug down till they 
struck the rock. An iron bridle bit, and some fragments 
of fine dark-red pottery, most likely belonging to a drink- 
ing cup, accompanied this body ; among the bones sent 
me I recognized the mandible of a sheep, and there may 
have been other unhuman bones. 
Both the skull and the long bones sent to me were badly 
fractured, but otherwise in not bad condition, so that I 
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