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I have discovered in this neighbourhood stood higher than all. This 
is only in accordance with what has been found elsewhere. 
In another diagram, I exhibited at the meeting in a tabular form 
a comparison of the head-form of the skeletons from these several 
places, by which it was seen that the number of round heads was :— 
in Woodyates, two; in Woodeuts and Rotherley, each one; and in 
the Anglo-Saxon cemetery there was no round-headed skeleton, 
whilst Rotherley produced three hyperdolichocephalic, or very long 
heads, out of the thirteen. found there. As round-headedness may, 
perhaps, be taken to imply a mixture of Roman blood, this result 
might be expected, as it is more likely the aborigines should have 
mixed their blood with the Romans in places situated on the main 
thoroughfare than in the remoter settlements. But the value of 
these conjectures must be taken for what it is worth, considering 
the comparatively small number of skeletons, viz., fifty-seven, from 
which the head-form could be ascertained. This much may, however, 
be said with certainty, that the population of these parts in Roman 
times was of much smaller stature than now, smaller than it after- 
wards became when the Teutonic element was introduced, but that 
varieties of type had already appeared, which are characteristic of 
it to the present time. We are fortunate in having obtained the 
opinion of Dr. Garson, who has earefully examined these skeletons 
and has tested all my measurements of them. His remarks are 
contained in a very valuable paper which he has contributed to this 
journal. 
The drains of the settlement were obviously made for the purpose 
of carrying off the heavy rainfall, as at Woodcuts and Rotherley, 
but for what reason they were afterwards filled up again to the top, 
so that skeletons could be buried in them, I am unable to understand. 
The whole character of the settlement, and its contents, were the 
same as in the other villages, and as the dyke is now proved to be 
more recent than the settlement its date with respect to those 
villages is also determined. This is the point towards which I have 
been working during the whole of this investigation. 
Before leaving this settlement another point must be noted. The 
Itinerary of Antoninus gives the distance between Sorbiodunum 
