ON KAINS CAVE, LONGCLIFFE, DERBYSHIRE. 



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Skull E. Skull F. 



I.— Measurements of Calvaria (in inches). 



Extreme length from supra-orbital point 



Do. do. glabella 



Extreme breadth . 



Vertical height .......] 



Do. to nasal suture 



Basi-cranial axis [ 



Bi-zygomatic breadth [][[ 



Circumference 



Frontal arc 



Parietal arc 



Occipital arc 



Total longitudinal arc 



Base line " ' 



Least frontal width 



Greatest frontal width 



Greatest occipital width . . . , 



Measurements from auditory meati : — 



Alveolar radius 



Radius to nasal suture 



Bregmal radius 



Extreme parietal radius .... .......... 



Opisthiac radius 



Bregmal arc ]' 



Parietal arc 



II. — Measurements of Face. 



Length of face (naso-alveolar line) . 



Basi-subnasal line 



Basi-alveolar line 



III. — Indices. 



Cephalic index 



Do. from glabella 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 "^ to alveolar border 



T 5 

 775 

 5- 4 



5- I 



5- 2 



4-56 



12- 8 



13- 5 



Do. 



apparently with a view to purify or consecrate the grave before 

 depositing therein the corpse. It might, therefore, have 

 happened that the exposed bones of older interments were 

 occasionally charred by this means, and this, probably, is the 

 explanation of the present example. 



The only remaining skull to be described is Skull F, the 

 most perfect hitherto found in the cave, and of which a plate is 



* All these measurements in the case of Skull F are to some extent con- 

 jectural, owing to the absence of the right auditory meatus. 



