314 Notes on Human Remains from Woodyates, Wiltshire. 
form the chief prominences, the glabella being a depression between 
them. The bony ridges for the attachment of muscles or their 
aponeurosis, such as those about the inion, stephanion, &c., are in 
some cases well developed, but as a rule are only moderately marked. 
When the characters of the calvaria are studied from the front, well 
marked differences in the form of the arch of the vault may be 
observed. In nearly a third of the specimens the arch is 
moderately high and forms a well proportioned curve, in about a 
third it is very acute or pointed at the summit or apex, while in 
rather more than a third the opposite condition obtains, that is to 
say, the arch is flat and broad at its apex. The cephalic index, 
which expresses the relative proportion which the breadth bears to 
the length of the calvaria (the latter being taken as 100), averages 
in the whole series 76°4, and varies from 69'2 to 82°6. As great 
importance attaches to this index for the purpose of classifying the 
various forms of head, it is necessary to analyse its variations in the 
group under consideration. Two of the crania are brachycephalic, 
nine are mesaticephalic, five are dolichocephalic, and one hyper- 
dolichocephalic. It should also be mentioned that the indices of far 
the greater number of the mesaticephalic specimens are nearer the 
upper than the lower limits of that group, and therefore more nearly 
approach the brachycephalic group. The breadth of the calvaria is 
in every ease except one, greater than the vertical height. In the 
exceptional case the two measurements are practically equal, the 
height being only 1mm. greater than the breadth. 
Passing now to the characters of the face, we find it is long and 
narrow in some cases, while in others it is short and proportionately 
broad. The form of the nasal portion is always a very characteristic 
feature of the face, and variations in the nasal index, which expresses 
the relation of the breadth of the nose to its length, are, perhaps, 
as strong evidence of mixed race as any character in the body, 
particularly if conjoined with marked variation in the form of the 
calvaria, indicated by the cephalic index. In these specimens great 
diversity of the nasal index is found to exist, since it varies from 
33°3 to 58°0. Six of the specimens are leptorhine (long and narrow), 
four are mesorhine, and two are platyrhine (short and broad). Here 
