114 Discovery of Two Graves cut in the solid Chalk Rock. 



being almost straight and at right angles to that of the other 

 teeth. 



" Looked at from in front this skull is remarkable for the extent 

 to which the segments furnished by the malars to the orbital ring 

 are, as it were, pushed backwards and slightly outwards, so that the 

 greatest transverse measurement of the orbit, taken from the " Da- 

 cryon " dips markedly downwards, and that the angle formed by 

 two lines taking these measurements in the two orbits and then 

 prolonged inwards so as to meet in the middle line is less of an 

 oblique angle than is usual. Still the height of the orbit is so great 

 as to give it an index of .87, but a trifle under the index which is 

 called " megasenne," and far above the average attained to by savage 

 races, such as the modern Australian, or the skull of the old man 

 of the chipped flint period from Cro-magnon. The borders of the 

 orbits are markedly rounded out in the segments furnished by the 

 malar bones. The nasals form a saddle-shaped mass, pinched to- 

 gether in the centre but expanding as well as rising in their lower 

 part. The supraciliary ridges are tolerably prominent and there is 

 scarcely any depression where they meet in the middle line. The 

 malar processes of the maxillary bones form a considerable concavity 

 on the exterior of the face. 



" In the norma verticalis this skull presents a bluntly oval contour, 

 tapering only very gradually from the point of maximum width 

 either forwards or backwards. As the subjoined measurements show 

 it is not phoenozygous. All the sutures visible in this view, though 

 traceable, are anchylosed, more or less. 



" The lower jaw is very characteristic of a strong man. Its 

 posterior angles are somewhat rounded off", as it were, under the 

 grasping and compressing action of the pterygoid and masseter 

 muscles; but the long axes of the body and of the ramus of the 

 bones form nearly a right angle with each other. The teeth are 

 some of them much worn by use, others much decayed, but none 

 had been lost before death, as had been the case in the upper jaw. 

 The chin was as well pronounced as any other part of the osseous 

 remains, having the outer angles of the mental triangle flanged 

 boldly outwards. 



