Notes on Human Remains from Woodyates, Wiltshire. 313 
made by General Pitt-Rivers showed that not only is there con- 
siderable diversity in the characters of the facial portion of the 
skull, but that there is also a good deal of variety in the form of 
the part which contains the brain, termed the calvaria. 
In this communication I only propose to indicate generally the 
characters and variations alluded to above, without going into details 
as to the different measurements and proportions of the specimens, ex- 
cept so far as may be necessary to illustrate the import of my remarks. 
The general form of the calvaria, when viewed from above, is 
oval, but the exact form of outline differs considerably. Thus, in 
some cases, we find it is a broad oval, in others long and narrow or ir- 
regular. Its ends are somewhat pointed in some specimens, while in 
others they are broader, or even nearly square. The line of greatest 
breadth is situated sometimes behind the centre of the oval, and in 
other cases about the centre. The sides are flat and straight in one or 
two instances, and asymmetry of the lateral halves is very common. 
The parietal bosses are as a rule not very pronounced. The state of 
occlusion of the sutures varies a good deal. In some instances they 
are very open, while in others they are obliterated, or nearly so ; these 
two conditions may sometimes occur simultaneously in the same speci- 
men; partial synostosis is, therefore, not uncommon. As arule the 
sutures are simple. Four instances of metopism or persistence of the 
mesial frontal suture occur in the series, which is in the proportion of 
about one in every four, a considerably higher average than obtains 
amongst modern British skulls. Numerous Wormean bones in the 
sagittal and lamboidal sutures occur in one instance, and to a less ex- 
tent in another. The forehead is broad and square in all the metopie 
specimens, and in them also the frontal bosess are well marked ; 
in the other specimens it is receding to a greater or less extent. 
The degree of development of the glabella and superciliary emi- 
nences varies much. As a consequence the form and prominence of 
the brow differs considerably. In many cases there is little develop- 
ment of these prominences, and where this obtains the brow is flat, 
while in others they are fairly well marked, but in no ease are they 
greatly developed. The glabella is sometimes the main prominence in 
the centre of the forehead, while in other cases the superciliary ridges 
