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ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
FEOM MIDDLETON MOOR, NEAE ARBOR LOWE, DERBYSHIRE.
(kEGION OE THE COBITANI, TEMP. PTOLEMiEI, A.D. 120.)
Cmniumfrom Middleton Moor Barrow—Quarter-size.
I n the "Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshii-e," p. 32, is an account of the opening, of a
barrow upon Middleton Moor, by Mr. William Bateman, in 1824. Twenty-foiu-years afterwards,
in 1848, his son, Mr. Thomas Bateman, explored another tumulus of very small size, about 50
yards to the S.E., which had been overlooked by his father. One skeleton, that had lain close
to the surface, had been destroyed by the plough. But, a few inches below the level of the
natural soU, a short rude cist was exposed, which enclosed the primary interment, consisting of
the remams of a woman in the prime of life, and of a child of about four years of age.
This woman, whose beautiful skuU Mr. Bateman has kincUy permitted us to depict had
been laid on the floor of the cist, on her left side, with her knees drawn up. Her child had been
placed above her, and rather behind her shoulders.
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Middleton Moor Cist, with Skeleton.
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