THE OPENING OF A TUMULUS NEAR PICKERING. 
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were also flexed, the hands being together beneath the lower jaw. 
The long bones and parts of the skull were intact, but the smaller 
cancellous bones were only made out with difficulty. The length 
of time since the body was inhumed and the nearness to the sur¬ 
face had led to their disintegration. The skull was brachycephalic; 
the teeth perfect but worn, the angle of the jaw being square and 
massive. The thigh bone measured 18 inches, and from the top 
of the skull to the bottom of the pelvis the measurement was 36 
inches, as accurately as we could tell. Taking the thigh bone as 
an index, -272 to *277, we calculate the person to have been about 
5 feet 3 inches in height. The sex was not determined with any 
certainty, but it was probably that of a male. 
No traces of any metal were discovered. 
The vessel found is what is known as a Drinking Cup or Beaker. 
It is 7 inches high, and is 5^ inches across the mouth. From the 
mouth to the junction of the upper and middle third it narrows 
and then swells out and again becomes smaller till it reaches its 
minimum circumference at its base. It is highly decorated and evi¬ 
dently has been worked with tools shaped like a blunt stunted fork. 
There have probably been several such instruments used, as the 
indentations vary from three or four to two dozen or more. It 
contained a few calcined bones. There is a discoloured patch on 
one side where the vessel has been in contact with the flesh. 
