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locality skulls of an entirely different form, of considerable length, 

 flat, and compressed, with a projecting occiput, and small facial deve- 

 lopment. 



One cranium of this kind, from the Danish Island Tyor, presents on 

 the occiput a bony spine ; the thigh-bones belonging to the same sub- 

 ject, 20f inches long, indicate a height of 6 feet 3 inches. Prichard 

 has figured a round skull, with prominent supraorbital ridges, in the 

 museum of the College of Surgeons, as a Cimbric cranium.* A skull 

 found in an ancient grave at Nogent les Yierges, Oise, exhibits, as 

 does a similar cranium from Auduze, an elongated form, the fore- 

 head depressed towards the temples, strong supraorbital ridges, and 

 worn teeth.f The ancient British brachycephalic skull from Ballidon 

 Moor, described by Davis, J has large frontal sinuses, prominent su- 

 praorbital ridges, and well-developed muscular impressions on the 

 facial bones. The prominence of the orbital border is less consider- 

 able in the ancient British skull, which is also brachycephalic, de- 

 scribed by Betzius. An ancient rounded Irish skull also exhibits 

 large supraorbital ridges projecting in front of the frontal bone, and 

 meeting in the middle, and a depressed forehead. § 



As, in speaking of the aboriginal inhabitants of Scandinavia, Nilsson 

 describes a more ancient brachycephalic, and a more recent dolichocephalic 

 type of cranial conformation, from the circumstance that the long oval 

 skulls of the one type have been found in graves containing metallic im- 

 plements, whilst the others have occurred in ancient burial-places, toge- 

 ther with implements of stone and bone, so D.Wilson asserts the existence 

 of two races in Scotland antecedent to the Celts ; the Fifeshire skull de- 

 scribed by him as elongated and narrow, corresponding with the dolicho- 

 cephalic Scandinavian type, whilst that from Montrose is round, with a 

 better frontal development, both exhibiting large frontal sinuses. || The 

 skulls, two of which were sent to me by the kindness of Dr. Yeiel, disinterred 

 some years since in Cannstadt, near the Uffkirche, and which were found 

 in Germanic graves, together with earthenware vessels, weapons, and or- 

 naments, none of which articles presented any trace of Boman art, are 

 orthognathic, of an elongated form, with a much projecting occiput, large 

 orbits, particularly from above downwards, the supraorbital ridges pro- 

 minent, and the root of the nose hollowed. Five ancient Germanic 

 skulls, from Selsen, preserved in the Bomano-Teutonic Museum at 

 Mayence, two of which are prognathic, present similar prominent su- 

 praorbital ridges ; as is the case also with a very ancient cranium in 

 the same collection, found at Oberingelheim, deep in the earth, and unac- 

 companied by any weapons ; and also with a skull of Germanic origin, 



* The Nat. Hist, of Man. Lond., 1845, p. 206. PI. VIII. 



| V. Leonh. und Bronn, Jahrb. fur Mineralogie, &c, 1853, p. 370. 



% Maury, Indig. Races of the Earth. London, 1857, pp. 297. 



§ Retzius, Kroniologisches, in Mull. Arch.. 1849, pp. 554 and 571. 



|| Maury, op. c, p. 29 k 



