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EARLY MAN xix. Malvern. Some flakes are in the Victoria Museum, Worcester, which are said to have been found upon the Malvern Hills, but neither the place of finding nor the date at which any of them were found seems to be known.

XX. Malvern. Further flakes have recently been found on this range and are in private hands.

xxi. Malvern. On the summit of the highest point of the Malvern range — the Worcestershire Beacon, 1,390 feet — in November, 1849, the late Mr. Edwin Lees met with some of the Royal Engineers who were engaged on the ordnance survey. They showed him part of a human skull found three days before in excavating on the summit of the Beacon to find the marks made as a datum during the former survey. On uncovering the rock about 9 inches below the surface, on the outer edge towards the south of the pile of loose stones, a small urn was found in a cavity of the rock with some bones and ashes. The urn was placed in an inverted position covering part of the ashes, and the half-burnt bones lay near and around it. Its height is 2½ inches, breadth at the top 3 inches. The bottom is nearly ¾ of an inch in thickness. The impressed markings are very deficient in regularity. They consist of a zigzag corded line both externally and within the lip impressed on the surface. The urn is figured by Allies, p. 165. On the north side of the same heap of stones another deposit of bones was found, but no pottery. Both the bones in the urn and the other deposit were examined with a microscope and found to be adult human bones which had been partly burnt,

(c)

i. Lindridge. A greenish-coloured stone about 4¾ inches in length by 1 inch in width and ¼ of an inch thick, perforated at one end only with countersunk holes at each of the two corners, a third hole between them being only partly drilled. The other end is sharper and undrilled. Was found in a gravel pit at Lindridge. It is now in the Victoria Museum, Worcester.

ii. Broadwas. A holed celt is reported in the Proceedings of the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, i. p. 194, to have been found at the Devil's Leap near Broadwas.

(d)

i. Stoke Prior. Two armlets — one of large diameter with flat broad ends and ornamented with punctured markings, the other with a smaller diameter but more massive, broader and plain — were found with the remains of a skeleton near Stoke Prior. The larger one is now in the British Museum (Evans, p. 383, fig. 476).

ii. Tutnall.

(a) An early celt of felsite roughly shaped measuring 4¾ inches in length, 2 inches in breadth at its wider end and 1¾ inches at its narrower. It is ¾ of an inch thick.

(b) A holed stone hammer formed of a brownish water-