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and calvaria, sucli as are usually obtained from the long barrows, 

 the alisphenoids, with Ihe adjoining edges of the parietals are very 

 commonly broken away, so that the condition of the sutures in the 

 temporal regions cannot be ascertained. This especially applies to 

 the skulls of children and of the young, which we have seen to be 

 essential for any just conclusion. I am able, however, to refer to 

 two youthful skulls sufficiently perfect in this respect, in which there 

 is well marked post-coronal, or saddle-formed contraction, but which 

 present no obliteration of these sutures. 



In a large series of upwards of twenty dolichocephalous British 

 BkuUs from AVinterbourn Monkton, North "Wilts, which, though not 

 from a tomb of that description, are probably to be referred to the 

 same period and people with those from the long barrows, the post- 

 coronal depression is more or less obvious in almost every instance, 

 and in about half the number exists in a comparatively marked 

 degree. It is important to observe, that in the calvarium of a boy 

 of about five (No. 42), and in another of a girl of about seven years 

 (No. 41), this is quite as apparent, or even more so, than in any of 

 the adult skulls. In one of the latter (No. 40), the form approaches 

 more closely to the klinocepTialus of Virchow, than in the rest. 

 Here the coronal depression is trivial, and is before rather than be- 

 hind the suture so called. There is, however, a marked contraction 

 in each temporal region, and the parietal eminences are full and 

 prominent : there is no particular fulness of the forehead. Of the 

 coronal and sagittal sutures there is no trace internally, and it is pro- 

 bable that the obliteration of the left spheno-parietal (on the right 

 side the ali-sphenoid has been broken away) is but a part of the 

 general premature obliteration so observable in the series. In the 

 girl's skull, in addition to that in the post-coronal region, there is a 

 parallel depression across the posterior third of the parietals, pro- 

 ducing a sub-globose dilatation of the intermediate parietal region, 

 approximating to that observed in the macrocephalic crania from the 

 Cri]nea and in those from Peru. The same skull is, moreover, a curi- 

 ous example of the " obliquely contracted (wry) skull," and "posterior 

 variety" of Virchow. The right frontal eminence is about half an 

 inch in advance of the left, whilst the left half of the occipital projects 

 to the same extent beyond the right. The synostosis is confined to 

 the left side of the lambdoidal suture. There were originally two 

 interparietal bones, the suture separating which remains distinct. 



