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of course considerably larger — 1599 cub-cent" against 1476. 



The facial features are those of the south and south-east of 

 England, with little peculiarity that I can see, though in the 

 western district, with which I am most familiar, there are more 

 square foreheads as compared with the dome-shaped than one 

 would find in a more purely Saxon locality. The cheek-bones and 

 brows ai'e not prominent ; the nose is usually straight or moderately 

 arched, and has not the Gaelic (Iberian ?) prominence of the tip 

 which is common further west. When aquiline it is not very 

 prominent. Cocked or concave noses are rare, and sinuous ones 

 are not common : the rounded club may occur in the Batavian 

 type. The mouth is usually well moulded, and the chin rounded : 

 these are Saxon features, as Park-Harrison correctly asserted. 



Conclusions. During the neolithic period portions at least of 

 this county were pretty thickly peopled by a long-headed and 

 probably dark-haired race of Iberian type. The " bronze " race 

 who conquered and ruled them, notwithstanding the numerous 

 barrows they have left on our downs, were decidedly inferior in 

 number, and such admixture of blood as took place did not greatly 

 alter the prevailing physical type. The later Belgic immigration 

 is inscrutable : the Eoman had little effect. The population whom 

 the Saxons encountered and enslaved presented the neolithic type, 

 a little altered, especially widened in the parietal region, and 

 rendered less regular, by crossing with the Gaels and others. 



The Saxons and Frisians who conquered and overlaid them 

 presented two leading physical types, as may be gathered not only 

 from their relics in this country, but from Gildemeister's masterly 

 paper on the ancient and mediaeval Bremeners in the Archie fur 

 Anthropologic. These were the tall long-headed " northern blond" 

 (the Viking or warrior type of the Swedes), and the shorter and 

 broader type which I call Batavian. Both are to be met with 

 pure among us at the present day ; but I think the latter gains 

 and has gained upon the former, which was the more numerous. 

 The Saxon invasion first touched this county about its south-eastern 

 corner, and spread up or alongside of the valleys which radiate 

 from about Salisbury. They may have fought over all this ground 



