204 PREHISTORIC INTERMENT NEAR WALTON-ON-NAZE.
Dr. Keith, who has kindly undertaken the task of examining
the bones, has come to the conclusion that the man was a worker
in some special trade involving a peculiar twist of the right
arm. He throws out the suggestion that the man may possibly
have been a weaver.
In speculating upon the trade that this man may have
followed, it seems to me quite worth while to bear in mind the
idea that the relics found overlying the grave may possibly be
the waste product of the actual craft that he followed.
As implied in the foregoing account of the circumstances of
its discovery, the skeleton belongs undoubtedly to the age of
the Buried Prehistoric Surface. The question of the archaeo-
logical stage to which this surface should be referred, is a some-
what wide and complicated problem. This is discussed at some
length in my paper on "The Correlation of the Prehistoric
Floor at Hull Bridge with similar beds elsewhere," published in
the present part of this journal. As that paper was in some
measure introductory to the present one, it is not desirable to
repeat the details of the evidence here. Suffice it to say that
this evidence seems to me to point to the conclusion that the
remains on the ancient buried surface date from an early part
of the Bronze Age, as usually understood in this country.
Upon the continent of Europe, where the epoch of Robenhausen
is taken as typical of the Neolithic Age, in spite of the fact
that bronze of local manufacture was undoubtedly in use, it
would probably come within the limits of that stage. That is
to say, using the Sequence Date scale, its age lies between s.d.
[9] 50 and s.d. [9] 60, probably about s.d. 58, or slightly
earlier.
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE SKELETON BY
PROFESSOR A. KEITH, M.D., F.R.C.S., CON-
SERAVTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
From a preliminary examination of the bones of the skeleton,
Professor Keith writes to me as follows :—
" The particular value of the prehistoric skeleton you have
had the good fortune to discover at Stone Point, Walton-on-
Naze, lies in the fact, firstly, that it is perhaps the most complete
prehistoric skeleton ever discovered, and secondly, that the data