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DURING October last, the sanitary authorities of Gloucester City had occasion to make some excavations in the timber-yard of Messrs. Booth and Co., and in the Bristol Road adjoining this yard, for the purpose of laying down a new sewer. In the course of this operation the workmen disinterred, from a bed of plastic clay, three human skeletons, occupying a position which appears to suggest that the remains in question are probably those of prehistoric man.
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PIDGEON, D. Prehistoric Man. Nature 31, 102–103 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031102f0
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