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This British tumulus had evidently been used for a superficial 
Roman burial, as shown by some remains of Samian pottery. On 
the S. E. side, precisely as in the case of the large tumulus opened 
by Mr. Greenwell on Langton Wold, a smaller one was found, 
formed of white gravel and sand, containing no remains. In 
another British cairn of stone, of much smaller dimensions, but 
built up of limestone like the first, an unbuimt body was found, 
doubled up, but no personal ornaments or implements; neither 
was there any smaller tumulus. At a few feet distance to the 
north a skeleton was found, laid on the natural siu-face of the grit, 
with stones piled round it in rude imitation of a cist. It was evi¬ 
dently a Roman interment, for a la,rge brass coin of Antoninus Pius 
was found with it, and an urn of the Durobrivian pottery, of a very 
elegant pattern. At thirty-four yards distance from the level cross¬ 
ing of the railway a trench or covered way was cut across, at a 
de|)th of ten feet. The bottom was covered with a semicircular 
layer of ashes and charcoal, nearly a foot thick, and for two or 
three feet upwards the section showed layers of ashes. In these 
there was no trace of pottery, but above the line of the ashes, 
pottery unmistakably Roman was found. The inference is that it 
was a British way, subsequently adopted by the Romans. In the 
British deposits, only a bone pin was found; in the Roman, various 
domestic utensils, and just at the northern edge of the ditch a com¬ 
plete skeleton of the Bos longifrons. A trench penetrating two feet 
into the rock, and seven feet wide, filled with ashes and haK- 
calcined bones of animals, seems to have been the fire place of the 
Roman auxihary troops. A small coin of the empress Helena was 
found here. About fifty yards further, where the covering of earth 
does not exceed two feet, shards of Roman pottery, a fine bowl of 
‘^bastard” Samian, and a coin of Severus were found. The great 
outer trench of the camp was then cut through, to the depth of 
twenty feet, leaving probably five or six feet below unexplored. 
Of these twenty feet, the first five were made up of layers of char¬ 
coal and bones of animals; one stone implement and two flint 
knives were found, and a skeleton doubled up after the British 
fashion and surrounded with large stones. Mr. Grreenwell, horn 
the examination and measurement of the skull, pronounces it to be 
decidedly British and brachycephahc. It lay near the surface of 
the British deposits. A stone pounder or rubber was also found. 
Above tliis was a semi-peaty deposit, showing that vegetation had 
taken place before the trench was filled with Roman delris. Among 
