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A N C I E N T BRITISH SKULL.
FEOM GEEEN LOWE, ALSOP MOOR, DERBYSHIRE.
(REGION OP THE COBITANI, TEMP. PTOIEMIEI, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Green Lowe Barrow.—Quarter-size.
IN the Spring of 1845, Mr. Bateman explored a barrow, bearing tbe pleasant and suggestiye
name of Green Lowe, situated on Alsop Moor, a district fertUe in ancient British remains.
The tumulus had been heaped over a rocky and imequal sm-face, in which a cist had been cut.
In the upper portion of the barrow a few human bones, and the teeth of horses, were met with,
accompanied by the osseous remains of the ever-present water-vole. When the soil was
cleared out of the cist, the skeleton of a man in the prime of Ufe was laid bare, placed in the
flexed position, with the knees drawn up nearly to the head. Behind the shoulders lay a fine
drinking-cup, a spherical piece of pyrites, a smaU flint instrument, and an elegant dagger-blade
of the same material. Behind the back, three beautiful barbed flmt arrow-heads, other ruder
objects of flint, and three bone implements from 5 to 8 inches long; and, across the pelvis, a
bone pin, were found. Near the hips were the bones of an infant.
The skuU exhumed from this barrow is marked by massiveness in every feature, which will be
rendered apparent by our figm-es and measurements. It is one of the most bulky met with in
the North Derbysliire and Staffordshire barrows. The face is large, with every lineament
expressed; upright; deeply depressed in the cheeks; mouth capacious, and stiU retaining a
perfect set of teeth, the enamel of which vies with the finest ivory in whiteness, the incisors
and canines alone being worn down. On the right side an accident has occurred in the
development of the first large grinder in the lower series. The teeth have become a little
crowded; and the two adjacent ones have overtopped this molar, confined it, and prevented
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