816 Notes on Human Remains from Woodyates, Wiltshire. 
and Woodyates skulls resemble one another more closely than those 
of Rotherley. The least individual variety occurs amongst the 
Rotherley skulls—they are the most homogeneous group. On the 
other hand, individual variety is greatest in the Woodyates specimens, 
while the Woodcuts skulls in this respect occupy a mean position 
between those from Rotherley and Woodyates. There are, of course, 
specimens in each set which show similar fundamental characters, 
particularly in the Woodcuts and Woodyates series. As minute 
details regarding the differences between the three sets of specimens 
are somewhat technical, and therefore tedious, except to those 
specially interested in the subject, I shall only point out the 
differences between them indicated by the form of the calvaria and 
nasal portion of the face. The cephalic index shows that the 
dolichocephalie element is most strongly marked in the Rotherley 
specimens, only one specimen out of thirteen being brachycephalic, 
and three mesaticephalic, while six are dolichocephalic, and three 
hyperdolichocephalic. Of the Woodcuts specimens one is brachy- © 
cephalic, eight are mesaticephalic, while five are dolichocephalic. 
The Woodyates specimens show the greatest tendency to brachy- 
cephaly, the greater number of the mesaticephalic skulls from 
there being at the upper end of that group, while the greater 
number of the mesaticephalic skulls from Woodcuts are at the lower 
end, that approaching the dolichocephalic group. In the nasal 
characters, the platyrhine form is not present either at Rotherley or 
Woodcuts, while the leptorhine and mesorhine forms are present 
in about the same proportion. This comparison of the characters of 
the skull shows that the Woodyates specimens belonged to a more 
mixed race than the inhabitants of Rotherley, while the Woodcuts 
people were intermediate in this respect. It also shows that the 
people in the neighbourhood of Woodyates did not live isolated from 
the Roman population, as the Rotherley people evidently did more 
or less, but mixed and inter-bred with them. As far as I am able to 
judge from the characters of the skull, there does not seem to be 
any evidence present of crossing with the Celtic population of 
Britain, and I am inclined to think that we have here to deal with 
a crossing between the Roman and early dolichocephalic British race. 
