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A N C I E N T BRITISH SKULL.
FBOM BARROW ON BALLIDON MOOR, DERBYSHIRE.
(REGION OP THE COKNAVir, TEMP. PTOLBJLEI, A,D. 120.)
Cranium from Baltidon Moor Barrow.—Qvarter-ske.
T h i s is a strongly marked aboriginal British skull of the earliest period, which we are permitted
to represent by the kindness of Thomas Bateman, Esq., of Lomberdale House, Derbyshire. It
was disinterred by its possessor from the lowermost cist of a bowl-shaped Barrow on Ballidon
Moor, on the 30th of July, 1849. The position of the skeleton to which it belonged wiU be seen in
the accompanying section of this Barrow, made at the time. About five feet from the simimit.
Section of Ballidon Moor Barrow.
it was laid on its right side in the usual flexed or contracted position, i. e. with the knees and
feet drawn up, at the bottom of a lozenge-shaped cist, formed of four upright flat stones,
originally covered by a fifth slab, which had fallen do-mi at one end. The only object of art
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