PEOPLE OF THE SUBMERGED FOREST 27 
found the skeleton of the Tilbury man. When a complete 
skeleton, or rather, representative parts of a complete 
skeleton, are found together, it is almost certain the 
person to whom that skeleton belonged was buried by 
human hands. 
It could happen that the entire body of an individual 
might come to rest in a deep, quiet, muddy pool, and 
thus become naturally entombed, but in the bed of a 
quick-flowing river, such as the Thames then was, such 
a fate is improbable. As decay set in, the various 
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Fig. 13. — The Tilbury skull fitted within the standard frame for modern 
British skulls of average size. 
parts of the body would become dismembered and 
scattered. We may reasonably presume, when a com- 
plete human skeleton is found, that we have to do with 
a burial. In 1883, when the Tilbury remains were 
found, men were not on the alert for the evidence which 
might have confirmed such a supposition ; no one ex- 
pected to find " buried " human remains at such a depth. 
By the fortunate find at Tilbury, an Englishman of the 
submerged-forest age was revealed to us. When the 
skull is placed within the frame which fits the head of 
the average modern Englishman, it is seen that the 
ancient man of Tilbury reaches our modern standard. 
