TRAGEDY OF PAST AGES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 16 May 1906, Page 2

TRAGEDY OF PAST AGES.

«. Murder of Over Two Thousand Years Ago. Bronze Age "Mystery" in a Yorkshire Cave. A tragedy, dating back to the Bronze Age, which terminated in Great Britain about 500 8.C., has been discovered by the members of the Yorkshire Ramblers Club in the course of an exploration of Littondale Cave, near the village of Arncliffe. Various portions of a human skeleton were found, including the skull, some being buried in stalagmite, and all bearing evidence of extreme age. Professor Boyd Dawkins, to whom the skull was submitted, believes it belonged to a female Celt, who probably lived towards the termination of the Bronze Age, says a correspondent of the Yorkshire Observer. She was apparently about forty years of age, and was not good-looking, for her upper teeth projected and her nose stood nearly at right angles to her face. The owner of the skull evidentMtet her death from a blow by some weapon, as there is a small irregular shaped hole penetrating the inner table of the skull. Probably the blow did not prove instantly fatal, and she crawled up the cave to its innermost recesses to die, the position in which the bones were found precluding the idea of burial.