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A N C I E N T BRITISH SKULL.
PROM PAESLEY HAY LOW, DERBYSHIEE.
(EEGION OP THE COBNAVII, TEMP. PT01BMJ3I, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Parsley Hay Low.—Quarter-size.
THIS Plate represents another primeval relic from Mr. Bateman's collection, whose owner was
the first to appreciate and preserve osseous remains from the Barrows of his native comity. It
offers evident traces of its aboriginal parentage, and was obtained from the opening of " Parsley
Hay Low" (in a deed temp. Elizabeth, named " Parcelly Hay"), a tumulus of stone, situated in
Section of Parsley Hay Barrow.
the Parish of Hartington, County of Derby, on the 6th of March, 1848. The section of the
BaiTow will convey better than description, the position of the skeleton, the skuU of which is the
subject of our Plate. It had been deposited in a narrow oval fissure of the rock, about three
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