The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

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SALISBURY.
Tux CATTLE TRADE, October 4,—The supply at
tins (fortnightly) market, consisted of about 2,500
sheep, and upwards of 200 beasts. Of the former
there was a scarcity of good South Downs, butt
taking the supply as a whole the quality was very
fair. With regard to the cattle there were many
excellent animals among them, and some very
inferior our,. Trade -however, both for sheep
and cattle was dull. Mutton 7d. to eql. per lb. -
prune oxen, Ix to 12s, per score, and haers, 10e.:
tolls. per score.

LAMBORN/L—LaMbOrMe OdOber Sheep Fair.
This annual fair, which had fallen into desuetude,
was revived this year under very favourable aus-
pices. It was held on Monday the :3rd inst.—the
2nd, which is the usual day, having fallen on Sun-
day—when upwards of 14,000 sheep were penned.
The attendance of farmers and dealers was very good,
and though sales, at the opening of the fair, were
not bnak, yet good prices were obtained as the ,
!horning advisee& sad at mid-day that. wee* helli
few pens while had set changed heads. There was
a very fair amount of competition for the various
prizes offered, and the committee have reason to
hope that another year the competition will be much.
stronger. The prize cup, very kindly presented by
J. Merry, Esq., was carried off by Mr. George
Brown, of kiloton, whose hundred wither lamb.
were very much admired. Mr. Stephen Brown, of
Fawley, was the successful competitor for the opus
prise given for the 100 best wether lambs, and Mr.
William Liddiard, of Eastbury, obtained the prise
for the second best hundred. All the lambs ea.
hibitod were of very exoellent quality, and showed
the great care and attention now bestowed on tho
breeding of sheep. The judges were Mr. C. Edney.
of Whttchurch, Rants- Mr. W. B. Canning, of
Chisledon, Wilts; and Mr. T. Owen, of (Upton
Farm, near Hungerford, Berke, whose decisions, wis
need hardly say, gave perfect satisfaction. Tha
prices realised were—for lambs, 25e. to 40e., and
for ewes, 30s. to 40s.
Forritim- Opening of a Wiltatire Barrow.—.
1 have just been down in Wiltshire (writes a corns-
pondent in the A daemons) opening a barrow in
plantation, not far from the edge of Salisbury Plain.
I found in the low tumulus, almost erased sad
levelled by the rains and crumbling frosts of
hundreds of years, bones which, put together, would
make about seven bodies, male and female. The
mound is in a lie wood of not more than 50 yeare
growth, and by the celebrated recluse
millionaire, ord, the novelist. The wood lion
a high plateau of close-cropped downs, and you could
almost hear the sheep bells from the folds on its
margin, in the road that leads to his park gates.
The nature of the mound was won discovered; it
was loose down earth, dug apparently from a hollow
still visible adjoining, beyond which are some traces
of earth ramparts and trenches; this was heaped.
over a pile of flints, below which you came to the
hard surface, chalk and barren ground which had
never been disturbed. Under the flints, in strag-
gling confusion, were the black why earth layers.,
the wraps of pottery, and the hence and skulls. The
male and female skull' were clearly distinguishable;
the former were small in cavity, and of immense
hardness and thickness, three times the modern.
thickness, as if ravage aboriginal men were accus-
tomed to go bare-headed. The female skulls were as
thin as the finest pie crust, and delicate as terracotta,
but equally intellectually deficient. Although some
of the thigh bones were carious and even earthy, and
had white roots of bind weed grown through their
talk* (jut as you see drain pipes choked up some-
times), 1 obtained one male skull perfect in its
frontal and occipital portions. 1 shall be only too
happy to show it to Mr. Wright. The forehead is
lower than a baboon's, receding and curving inwards,
and rather sunken. It is small, but flinty, thick as
a negro's. I must confess that this and some other
recent discoveries almost lead one to suppose that
England was, long before the ROM= time, inhabited
by some aboriginiss of a very
_low type, who fell
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