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ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
FEOM LONG LOWE BAREOW, NEAR WETTON, STAPFOEDSHIEE.
(BEGION OF THE OOaSAVII, TEMP. PTOLBMIEI, A,D. 120.)
Cranium from Long Lowe Barrow.—Quarter-size.
A SEMES of barrows in and about the northern part of Derbysliii-e, presents such peculiarities
as to deserve special notice. They are usually large oval cairns, or formed chiefly of stones,
w-ith scarcely any earth in the interstices; and cover stone cists, the size of the slabs of which
entitle them to the epithet megalithic. In these capacious cists the osseous remains of numerous
Plan of Stone Cists, with their covering stones, Uinning Lowe Hill.
distinct individuals, of various ages and different sexes, ai-e commonly met with, frequently in
great confusion; the bones of many different animals also, fragments of primeval urns, and flint
mstruments, which, from their blanched appearance, beai- testimony to their exposui-eto the action
of fire. The stony large-cisted barrows are not very numerous; still Mr. Bateman, during his
extensive excavations, has met with them at difi'erent times, and he distinguishes them as
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