LONG BARROWS. 



143 



FIG. 142. 



Long Skull. Derbyshire. 



narrow skulls, which have received from 

 Dr. Wilson the name of " Kurnbecepha- 

 lic," or boat-shaped skulls, resembling 

 the one in fig. 142, which was obtained 

 by Mr. Bateman from the tumulus 

 known as " Longlow," near Watton, in 

 Derbyshire. This tumulus contained 

 the remains of thirteen individuals, 

 who had been buried in the usual 

 contracted position. They were con- 

 tained in a cist composed of large stones, 

 and were accompanied with several 

 worked flints, including three carefully made arrow-heads. 

 Long skulls are comparatively rare in the round tumuli of 

 England, while, on the contrary, no round skulls have yet 

 been met with in the long tumuli, at any rate in Wiltshire and 

 Gloucestershire : so that the evidence appears to support Dr. 

 Thurnam's aphorism, Long barrows, long skulls ; round bar- 

 rows, round skulls.* This conclusion rests on the measure- 

 ments of 137 skulls, 70 from round barrows and 67 from 

 long ones, and it must be observed that these are not selected 

 specimens, but, so far as the long-barrow skulls are concerned, 

 comprise the whole number which we possess in a sufficiently 

 perfect condition ; while, as regards the 70 from round tumuli, 

 Dr. Thurnam has taken the whole number (41) contained in 

 the Bateman collection, those described in the Crania Brit- 

 tannica, and all those in his own collection. It is important 

 to observe, therefore, that in neither case has any selection 

 been made which could influence the results. Now if we class 

 those skulls in which the relation of the breadth to the length 

 is less than 73 to 100 as long heads, or Dolichocephalic, those 



* Mem. Anthropological Soc. the same Society), of which Dr. 



vol. i. The following facts, how- Thurnam has been so kind as to 



ever, are mainly taken from his forward me the proofs, 

 second paper (in the memoirs of 



