52 BARROWS AT HADDON FIELDS, DERBYSHIRE. 



highest level at the juncture of the coronal and sagittal sutures, which 

 level is maintained for about i£ in. rearward, and then follows the 

 oblique slope (so characteristic of these skulls, as opposed to the precipi- 

 tous sinking of others), terminating with the prominent occipital 

 squama. The forehead is low, but by no means retreating, and its 

 Uibera are full, and sinuses well developed. In its vertical aspect, the 

 elongated oval contour is very striking, the parietal eminences, as usual, 

 being well forward, and the forehead narrow. Altogether the calvaria 

 has a well filled appearance, and, both in this aspect, as well as the 

 former recalls the female skull of Sherburn Wold (page 608, Greenwell's 

 " British Barrows "), except that in that skull the superciliary ridge 

 is not so prominent. 



There is a slight asymmetry — noticeable also in the frontal and 

 dorsal aspects, the right side, particularly in the temporal region and 

 the adjacent parts, being somewhat flattened. The forehead, also in 

 the vertical aspect, is on this side a little fuller in a forward direction 

 than on the other side (see Plate I.) ; and, in the frontal aspect, a 

 decided fulness is seen in the upper parts of the right parietal and 

 frontal bones, over and above what obtains on the opposite side. 

 There is little doubt that this asymmetry is correlated with the dis- 

 coloration and roughness of this side of the skull, and that both have a 

 posthumous origin, — the former being brought about by the weight of 

 the skull exerting a pressure upon this side, which, as the reader will 

 recollect, was the side upon which it lay, and the latter by the damp 

 earth with which it came in contact. In such a flattening-out of the 

 temporal bone with its squama, and the lower part of the parietal, a 

 lateral thrust would be exerted upon the surrounding parts, which 

 would tend, especially where the skull was thin or weak, to heap it 

 up, and thus bring about the observed fulness in these parts. 



Internally, the sagittal and lambdoidal sutures are obliterated, and 

 the coronal suture shows traces only of its existence. Externally, the 

 former two are quite open, but the latter only partially so. 



A portion of the left parietal bone is lost, leaving an open space of 

 about 2 in. by 2\ in., and bounded on the one side by part of the 

 lambdoidal suture, and on the other by the old transverse fracture 

 above alluded to, and below by part of the squamous suture. The 



