THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 
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Combe Capelle and Briinn type. On the other hand. Dr. W. 
L. H. Duckworth has pointed out that the skull has suffered from 
great posthumous distortion,and that after making the necessary 
allowance for this, neither the skull nor the limb bones show 
any discoverable difference from long-headed Europeans of 
to-day. 
If the remains were of the race-type characteristic of the 
period to which the deposit belongs, there might be some pro¬ 
bability that they represented a contemporary interment made 
from a buried “ floor.” As this is not the case—so far as our 
available information goes—the problem of the dating of the 
interment is the same as if this interment had been made in a 
deposit of the Eocene, the Cambrian, or any other geological 
period. 
BURY ST. EDMUNDS. 
A fragment of skull, which may be palaeolithic, although the 
evidence is not conclusive, was found by Mr. H. Prigg in 1882. 
The fragment is unfortunately too imperfect to give any reliable 
Characters. 30 
THE TILBURY SKELETON. 
As this discovery was made on Essex soil, it has a peculiar 
interest for us. It was unearthed during the excavations for 
the Tilbury Docks in 1883, and described by Sir Richard Owen, 
who made a greatly exaggerated estimate of its age. 31 It is 
erroneously referred to the Neanderthal race in the French 
manuals of de Mortillet and Dechelette, but it really belongs 
to Huxley’s River-bed type, which has recently been revived 
by Professor Keith. 
It was an interment made from the prehistoric surface 
beneath the lowest peat of the Thames estuary. Although at a 
lower level, the situation is essentially the same as that of the 
Walton skeleton which I dug up some few years ago with the 
assistance of Mr. Miller Christy. 32 At the first glance, we 
might well be led to exaggerate the importance of the difference 
in the level of the two finds. This buried surface, which under¬ 
lies the marsh deposits of our saltings, is by no means a level 
30 H. Prigg. Journ. Antlirof' lust, vol. xiv., p. 51. W G. Smith, Man tin’ Primeval 
Savage, 1894, p 280. 
31 R. Owen. Antiquity of Man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton 
during excavations of the East and West India Docks at Tilbury, London, 1884 
32 S. H Warren, Essex Naturalist. 1911, vol. xvi., p. 198; also Journ R. Anthrop. Inst., 
1912 vol. xlii , p. 120. A. Keith, ibid., p. 128 
