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unehambered long barrow, and which was also the first to be des- 

 cribed, was from that at Winterboume Stoke, in 1863. (Memoirs 

 of the Anthropological Society of London, 1864, i,, 144, pi. I.) 

 Since then he had accumulated twenty-seven skulls from the un- 

 ehambered long barrows in South Wilts, which are all remarkably 

 long and nai'row, and designated dolichocephalic, stenocephalic, and 

 humhecephalic} by modern craniologists. " In Europe, at the present 

 day, there is no people with skulls so long and so narrow ; and we 

 have to search for cranial proportions similar to those of the old 

 long barrow folk far away in Africa, India, Australia, or the Me- 

 lanesian Islands. The contrast in form between the long skulls from 

 the long barrows and the short or round skulls, which to say the 

 least, prevail in our Wiltshire circular barrows, is most interesting 

 and remarkable, and suggests an essential distinction of race in the 

 peoples by whom the two forms of tumuli were respectivelj* con- 

 structed.'''' ''' 



^ "Long-headed," " narrow-headed," " boat- 

 ' " The mean stature, derived from 52 measurements was 5 feet 6 inches for 

 the men of the Long Barrows, and 5 feet 9 inches, for those of the Round 

 Barrows." — Thurnam Mem. Anthrop. Soc, iii., 71. Very different was the 

 stature of some skeletons found at Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, a few 

 years ago, of which the writer procured the following account for Dr. Thurnam 

 from the son of Mr. Heaven, the chief resident on the island: " The skeletons 

 were found on the top of the island, about 2 feet under ground, in digging 

 foundations for a wall for farm buildings ; the ground was slightly mounded ; 

 if artificial, it must have been some time ago, as it was always taken for a 

 natural rise in the land. The number of the more perfect skeletons was seven, 

 lying in a row with the heads to the West. The first in the row, a male, 

 measured 8 feet 5 inches ; by the head were placed two upright stones with 

 the head lying in a little hollow, and protected by a third stone. None of the 

 others had any appearance of coffins by them but great numbers of limpet 

 shells. The one measured was measured by my father, by whose orders the 

 remains were buried again, but I am afraid much injured by the workmen in 

 doing so. Some pottery and some beads were found with them, A bout thirty 

 yards from one male skeleton were those of a woman and child. Mr. 

 Etheridge, then curator of the British Institution, showed some of the pottery 

 to a friend of his, an antiquary, I believe, who said it was undoubtedly Ancient 

 British. I believe a slight notice of the discovery appeared in a Bristol paper. 

 The ground was not fully explored." The writer would have been glad, if he 

 could have met with this newspaper notice. He was informed of the discovery 

 by the late Commander R. W. Hardy, R.N., who was acquainted with Mr. 

 Heaven, and wrote to him for the above information. 



