38 NOTES ON A TUMULUS 
the external occipital protuberance. The broadest part is between 
the bases of the mastoid processes, and measures five inches and 
three-quarters. The perpendicular height inside from the anterior 
margin of the foramen magnum, is five and a half inches. Cir- 
cumference of arch (inter-auditory vertical) fourteen inches ; 
circumference of arch (inter-auditory horizontal) nine and a half 
inches; length from front of superior maxilla, just above incisor 
teeth, to anterior margin of foramen magnum, fourteen and a 
quarter inches; transverse diameter of foramen magnum, one 
inch and a quarter; antero-posterior diameter of foramen 
magnum, one inch and a half; from posterior margin of fora- 
men magnum, over the external occipital protuberance to high- 
est point at vertex, seven and three-quarter inches. The angle 
of the jaw is obtuse, notwithstanding that the teeth are nearly 
perfect; three wisdom teeth and the last great molar of the 
right side of the upper jaw only are wanting, and the sockets of 
some of these show that they had probably been present at the 
time of death. The teeth are somewhat worn, and largely en- 
crusted with tartar. The incisors of the upper much overlap 
those of the lower jaw; this condition, which is met with now 
and then at the present day, must have given a peculiarity of 
expression to the face. The fragment of sacrum is five and a 
half inches long, therefore most probably male, the coccygeal 
anchylosis indicating an age of about forty years. 
The extremities. Upper—The clavicles are strong and well 
curved, the right bone has its sternal end more largely developed 
than the left, indicating a right handed man. The right clavicle 
is six and a half inches in length; humerus, fourteen and five 
sixteenths of an inch; radius, ten and a half inches; ulna, eleven 
and three-quarter inches. 
Lower.—The pelvic fragment is that ofa male. The femur 
is nineteen and a quarter inches in total length; the tibia, six- 
teen and a half inches. Nearly all the articular surfaces of the 
bones, particularly of those of the left side, have suffered a 
change, whereby the motions of the joints’ must have been for 
some time before death impeded to a considerable extent ; 
within and around some joints small exostoses have been 
