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 136 DESCRIPTION OF AN ANCIENT TUMULAR CEMETERY. seen, the direction of the skeletons from west to east is uni- form. This circumstance may perhaps induce us to place the date of this cemetery at a period subsequent to that of the one at Hartlepool, and may lead us to assign it to the eighth rather than the seventh century. TABLE, SHEWING THE MEASUREMENTS OF 21 CRANIA, FROM THE CEMETERY AT LAMEL-HILL. Reference to Skulls. 6 a 3 c Frontal Region, or Fore-head. Parietal Region, or Middle-head. Occipital Region, or Hind-head. .a ■a a V 1^ ■55 i a ■a P5 1 a i s .a i i s • ( [From Tanner { Row, York.7] ) 21| 5 5 . 51 H 54 H 44 4| 4| 1 [From! to 12 2 the numbers 3 correspond with . those in the ^ plate.] 6 20i 20| 19 20i 21? 191 18i •201 20 191 19 ? 21 20f 20 211 201 20 201 21? 2 5 5i 4 5 5 4| 4| 5 4| 4| H 5 5 4| H 5 5 4^ ? 44 4| 4| 44 4| 4| 4 H 4| 44 4^ 4| 44 4f 44 4| 4| 4| 44 44 5i 5 44 5, 4| 44 5 5 H H 4| 44 5 H 5 44- ^' H 5 4| 5| 5 5 54 5 5 41 4 5 ^ H 5 54 5 H 5 5 5| 54 5i 5| H 5 5i H 4| H 5 44 5 54 5 5 54 5 5 4^ 5 44 44 44 4| H H 5 4| 44 5 5 4 44 41 4 4J 3| 4 44 4| 4 4i 4| 4i 4i 4i 4 4| 44 4 4i 4 H 44 44 4| 3t 4| 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 r [In Museum J iq) of the College of/ ) Surgeons, Lon- ( tdonj J 14 15 16 17 18 19 .... 20 21 ^ The measurements and figures of the skull (A.) are introduced as standards for comparison. This cranium is of rather more than average size, and well-proportioned, being almost equally removed from the lengthened and shortened oval foi-ms, but approaching the latter rather than the former. It was found in digging on the site of the railway station in Tanner Row, York. The locality was very near that where the Roman baths were found, and not far from that of several Roman burial-places ; but, as it was subsequently the site of the monastery of the Friars Preachers, the period and race to which the skull is to be attributed are quite doubtful. Of tlie first twelve crania, si.x, viz. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, and 12, are probably those of males, the other six those of females.