From SteveBivans

Bones, Burials, and the Viking Great Army in Repton

 In this he found a stone coffin, and with Difficulty removing the Cover, saw a ‘Skeleton of a Humane Body Nine Foot’ long, and round it lay ‘One Hundred Humane Skeletons, with their Feet pointing to the Stone coffin.’  The Head of the great Skeleton he gave to Mr Bowers,…but it is lost; yet he says, that he remembers the Skull in his Father’s Closet, and that he had often heard his Father mention this Gigantick Corps, and thinks this Skull was in Proportion to a Body of the Stature.