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A N C I E N T ROMAN SKULL.
PROM MEGALITHIC TOMB AT YORK.
(YORK,—THE KOMAN EBVRACUM, TIKST TO FIPTH CENTTIEY A.B.) K• r,
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1 MegalitUc Tomb, Fork.—Quarter-size.
THIS remarkably fine Roman skull is derived from a stone tomb, of singular and unusual
construction, discovered in the year 1848 in making the York and Newcastle Railway, very near
to the walls of the former city. The precise spot is not far from the entrance through the city
wall to the Railway Station, and is clearly witlmi the limits of the great Roman cemetery,
which occupied so large an area on the south-west of Eburacum. The tomb was placed north
and south, with the head to the north. Whenfoimd, it was, with all that it contained, presented
to the YorksMi-e Philosophical Society, in whose Museum it is now preserved. Through the
kind offtces of the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, Curator of Antiquities in the Society's Museum,
we have been permitted by the Council the use of the craniimi, for the piirpose of being figured
and described, as well as to introduce an engraving of this luiinscribed tomb itself.
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Roman Tomh found at York.
I t will be perceived that this large tomb is formed of a series of roughly hewn slabs of gritstone,
ten in n amber, fom- of which rest upon the top, stretching from side to side. On removing
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