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ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
FROM BARROW AT AOKLAM WOLD, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE.
(REGION OP THE BBIGANTES, TEMP. PTOLEM^I, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Barrow at Acklam.—Quarter-size.
t 2 e Z l i T " ' ^^^ -- Acklam,
Ch h i by thewx-iterandothermembers of the Yorkshire Antiquarian
Uub m 1849. They are ten or twelve in number, and situated on the western escarpment of the
wolds whence a most extensiye view is obtained over the Vale of York. They are separated
from t^ad, «nin, wold by dikes " of earth, forming part of a system of a n c i e nTb r n Z it^ zi^iz rrr • r ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
PositioTw , r T "" ^ the usual contracted
r i e l t T n T'-, In a fourth
remaps were o f I T ' ' ™ ^^^^ only other
W s X e " ' Inthislastinstancethecalcined
d po ^^^leton, where they seem to have been
Which the skull here figured, and now in the Museum of the Yorkslnre Philosophical Society,
X f a ^ ^ ^ ^^ .. Mounta... .0. of Y d .
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