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IN 1884 the late Mr. Henry Prigg, of Bury, exhibited before the Anthropological Institute a portion of a human skull supposed to be of Palæolithic age. The paper was printed, with an illustration from my pencil, in the Journalof the Anthropologica Institute, vol. xiv. p. 51. The relic was found in 1882, in the parish of Westley, in brick-earth at a depth of 7½ feet. Mr. Prigg was in the pit on the morning after the discovery, and could see no traces of a grave, or old disturbance. A few yards from the pit mentioned, a workman reported the discovery of an entire human skeleton in the brick-earth, at a depth of 8 feet, some thirty years previously.
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SMITH, W. The Bury St. Edmunds Human Skull Fragment. Nature 53, 173 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053173a0
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