Undated Cemetery at Binton

1 … Binton… occupies a hollow running into the hill and partially detaching a part of it which forms a kind of promontory. At the foot of this promontory, in lowering a garden in 1860 or 1861, several human skeletons were found, some of which I saw taken out. They were all lying E and W, as correctly E and W as the church is placed… on the other side of the village street. All of these were about a foot and a half from the surface, and with one exception were in a flat position on their backs. One only of those I saw was doubled up… there could be no reasonable doubt that this individual had been buried immediately after death…
2 Tomes describes the injuries suffered by this invidual, viz. fractured skull and fractured lower jaw, and says that they obviously occurred whilst the man was alive and they probably caused his death, but states that there is no reason to suppose that he was interred at a different time to the others with which he was associated.
3 Negative observation of trenches for extension.