The Voice Of Freedom

An Ancient Relic.

A correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser, writing from Scarborough, England, states that in that place the museum contains a perfect skeleton of an ancient Briton, dug from a neighboring burrow or tumulus, six or eight years ago. The skeleton is perfect. It was enclosed in a rude coffin, the trunk of an oak tree of vast dimensions, roughly hollowed out. The tannin of the oak had so preserved the body that considerable portions of the hair was still cleaving to the scalp, although from various coins, implements and weapons of war, &c. found in the coffin, it was indisputably proved that the body must have been interred at least two thousand years. The action of the tannin had also turned the skeleton perfectly black. The proportions of this curious relic did not justify the common opinion as to the gigantic stature and muscular frames of the early Britons. The height did not exceed five feet ten or eleven inches, and the bones generally were not above the ordinary size. The only indication of muscular power was in the amplitude of the chest and the perfect curve of the ribs.