ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
PEOM HAT TOP BARROW, MONSAL DALE, DEBBYSHIEE.
( E E G I O N OB THE COEITAVI, TEMP. PTOLEMYEI, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Hay Top Barrow,—Quarter-size.
ONE of the most productive barrows opened by the late Mr. Bateman is situated on the summit
of a hill called Hay Top, in Monsal Dale. He described it as " flat-topped, twenty yards in
diameter, and fom' feet high "—a height partly produced by the rock itself, as there was not
more than two feet of material heaped upon it*. The subjoined section of the barrow, with
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Plan of Hay Top Barrow, Monsal Bale.
* Ten Years' Diggings, p. 74.
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