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peaty bed under which it lay, I give the following notes on a 
similar deposit, discovered between Saffron Walden town and 
the eastern part of Audley End park, during sewerage exca¬ 
vations, in 1911 and 1912. Here, under what are known as the 
Swan Meadows, situated at present stream level, the trenches 
revealed a peaty deposit, containing numerous horse and cattle 
bones at a level of about 8 feet from the surface. At this level 
also were found two pieces of Roman pottery and several of the 
narrow lobed-edged horse shoes, said to be Late Celtic. Late 
Mediaeval pottery, etc., occurred in the surface layers only. 
The peat was believed by the engineers to extend to a depth of 
over 20 feet, as their piles of that length were driven down to the 
head without difficulty. This deposit is also in the upper valley 
of the Cam or Grant a, only about ij miles from the Wenden 
deposit and at about the same level above O.D. 
A comparison between the depth of the Roman level of the 
peat in the Swan Meadows and that of the Wenden skull would 
seem to suggest either that the latter is of pre-Roman age, 
which is supported by the megaceros antler, or that some 
fifteen feet of clay and peat accumulated in the upper Cam 
Valley between Roman and late Mediaeval times. 
Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., has kindly examined the few other 
bones from this deposit which are preserved with the skull at 
Saffron Walden, and reports that they represent the following 
animals :— 
Red deer (Cervus elaphus). Antler and skull. 
Roe deer (Capreolus caprcea). Lower jaws. 
Ox, Longfaced—? (Bos longifrons ?) Horn-core. 
Pig (Sus scrofa). Teeth. 
There is also the large antler of Cervus megaceros, the “ Irish 
Elk,” the occurrence of which with the foregoing fauna is of 
interest. 
A few specimens of drift-wood from the peat are as yet not 
positively determined. 
REPORT ON THE WENDEN CRANIUM. 
By Dr. A. KEITH, 29th March 1913. 
This skull is of importance because it is apparently of 
Neolithic date, and not from a tomb, as is the case with 
most known crania of that period, but from a river bed 
deposit. Its date may be at any time between 2000 to 5000 B.C., 
