18 The Thirty-Vourth General Meeting. 
a tribe of the Durotriges partially mixed with the Belge, and also 
perhaps with the Romans, of which race—in the opinion of Drs. 
Beddoe and Garson, who have examined the skulls—some trace 
may be seen in one or two of them. Unlike the skulls of the 
earlier Britons their teeth showed traces of decay, and they were 
afflicted to some extent with rheumatoid arthrites, or ‘Poor Man’s 
Gout.? Whether the exceptionally short stature of this Rushmore 
tribe of Britons was accentuated by evils attendant upon slavery or 
by the drafting of some of their largest men into the Roman legions 
abroad is a point upon which we can only speculate. I shall not 
attempt to dogmatise or to fix with precision the ethnical position 
of this diminutive race, for it is evident that we are only on the 
threshold of the inquiry. The tribe of Roman Britons at Frilford 
examined by Professor Rolleston, if they really were Roman Britons, 
had an average stature of 5ft. 8in. for the males, so that a marked 
difference may have existed between the different tribes, as might 
reasonably be expected. I have another village close by to explore, 
after which other villages on my property remain to be examined. 
If it is thought that twenty-eight skeletons is a small number on 
which to base a calculation of stature, it must be remembered that 
the skeletons of Ancient Britons are scarce, but in the opinion of 
good physical anthropologists the number is sufficient to form a 
good approximate idea of the height. Dr. Thurnam based his 
important conclusions upon no more than twenty-five long barrow 
and twenty-seven round barrow people, so that my evidence is fully 
equal to his in respect to the number of cases computed from. I 
have now occupied so much time with the barrows that I must 
defer what I had to say about the drift period. No one now requires 
to be reminded of the great advance of knowledge that has been 
brought about by the study of the drift gravels, which at the lowest 
computation has quadrupled the time during which we are enabled 
to investigate the works of man. No longer confined to the last 
three thousand or four thousand years, the archeologist has been 
earried back far into geological time, and has been brought in view 
of the earliest struggles of our ape-like ancestors to become men. 
No individual amongst those who assembled here in 1849 had the 
