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to its molar teeth, the wide ramus, short coronoid process, 

 feeble chin, and rounded, often inwardly bent, angle. It is 

 true that similar lower jaws occur among the Bushmen, Tas- 

 manians, Melanesians and other low races, but Professor 

 Rolleston affirms* that amongst Eskimos only do we find such 

 jaws combined with the widely open orbit and vertically elon- 

 gated nasal cavity so characteristic of the long barrow race. 



The round barrows belong in many cases to the Bronze 

 Age. The presence of metal, the forms of some of the stone 

 implements, as, for instance, the tanged arrow-heads and the 

 pierced stone axes, as well as the character of the pottery, 

 justify the conclusion that they belong to a later period than 

 the long barrows one, moreover, at which Britain was occu- 

 pied by a round-headed race, among whom lived, however, 

 probably in a subordinate position, representatives of the 

 earlier long-headed people. 



I would particularly urge on those who may in future open 

 any barrows 



1. To record the sex of the person buried; this is more 

 satisfactorily to be determined from the form of the pelvis 

 than from the skull. In this manner we may hope to deter- 

 mine the relative position, and the separate occupation (if 

 any) of the two sexes. 



2. To observe the state of the teeth, from which we may 

 derive information as to the nature of the food. 



3. To preserve carefully any bones of quadrupeds that may 

 be present, in order to ascertain the species, and, in the case 

 of the ox and hog, to determine, if possible, whether they 

 belong to wild or domesticated individuals. 



We may fairly hope that when thoroughly questioned the 

 barrows will not only answer many of these interesting ques- 

 tions, but that they will also tell us many things which it would 

 never occur to us to ask. It is evident, at least, that when a 



* British Barrows. Green well and Rolleston, p. 718. 



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