118 The Thirty-third General Meeting. 
have asked Mr. Goddard, the owner of the field, for permission to 
explore this interesting relic, and although this opportunity had 
passed, he hoped that now that the matter had been brought before 
the public some steps would be taken to investigate it. 
In thanking Mr. Morris on behalf of the Meeting for his remarks, 
the Prestpent re-echoed the hope that steps would be taken to 
investigate the matter thoroughly. 
This was followed by a paper on “ Ringsbury Camp,” by the 
Rev. W. H. E. Me. Knight, which, in the absence of that gentleman, 
was very kindly read by Mr. James Sadler, of Purton; and then 
Mr. Wim Cunnineton, F.G.8., exhibited and commented on 
several specimens of skulls of the dolichocephalic form, which had 
been taken from the famous long barrow known as “‘ Bowlsbury 
Tump,” near Heytesbury, opened by himself and Mr. Henry 
Cunnington, Hon. Curator of the Society, under the auspices of 
this Society, in June last. The skulls found are of much interest, 
all of them being of the ong (dolichocephalic) shape. They confirm 
the views of our late fellow-Member, Dr. Thurnham, who first 
discovered the fact that the people who erected the Jong barrows 
possessed longer skulls than those of the people of the rownd barrows, 
who succeeded them, and longer than those of any of the modern 
races of Europeans. They are apparently the most ancient inhabi- 
tants of this island of whom any record exists. No implements of 
metal of any kind have been found in their interments, and their 
pottery is of the rudest kind, without any ornaments. The only 
traces of art found in Bowls Barrow are flint flakes, struck off in 
making implements, and an oval quartzite pebble, which has been 
used at both ends asa hammer. The skulls, or fragments of skulls, 
of at least fourteen individuals were found on the late occasion : 
more than half of these had been cleft or fractured, apparently at the 
time of death. Several of them were shown at the Meeting; also 
specimens illustrating the differences between the long skulls of the 
long barrow type, and the shorter skulls of the round barrow period. 
As all these papers will appear in the Magazine, they need not be 
further mentioned here: needless, too, to say that their authors were 
severally thanked from the chair, and that the approbation of the 
