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inches to above six feet. They had long, oval heads, with large 

 bases, wide and expanded behind, narrow, low, and contracted 

 in front ; the frontal sinuses and orbital ridges are prominent, 

 with a wide and deep depression in the frontal bone above those 

 parts. The cheek bones are large and high; the jaws large 

 and strong, and the lower jaw deep and square at the chin, and 

 angles. The teeth are fine and white and free from caries, 

 although in some instances, much worn away on their outer 

 edges. The women were above five feet, and had the same 

 general character of formation as the men, and presented 

 clearly the female distinctions, the bones being smaller and 

 more delicately formed : no sagittal suture could be discovered 

 in the frontal bones of many of the children, and infants. 



The human remains discovered in the Long Tumuli dififer 

 from those of the Round Tumuli, and are often mixed : they may 

 have belonged to another, or mixed race. These were tall, stout, 

 strong and square built ; with long heads, large bases, fairly 

 developed foreheads, no great projection of the orbital ridges, 

 or depression in the frontal-bone ; and the facial-bones did not 

 project so much ; but the lower jaw was deep and square at the 

 chin and angles : the teeth are free from caries, although, in 

 many instances, they are worn away obliquely on their outer 

 edges. (Many of the thigh-bones in both races have an 

 oblong square surface on their outer-side, below the trochanter 

 major.) The ridges and processes are very prominent and 

 strong ; some of the thigh-bones measured more than nineteen 

 inches ; the female bones of this race were larger and less 

 distinctly marked than in the Round Tumuli bones. Most of 

 the developed skulls found in the vaults of the Long Tumuli, 

 were broken across the vertex; and Dr. Thuknam suggests 

 that such broken skulls found at Rodmarton Tumulus, may 

 have been broken before death ; being the remains of murdered 

 prisoners, or of persons slain for sacrificial purposes. 



Bodies are often discovered some feet deep or nearer the 

 surface, near Tumuli, Barrows, and Knapps, presenting the 

 Round Tumulus character of skeleton: as the bones recently 

 discovered near the surface of the soil in St. James's Square, 



