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from this barrow, in 1864, by Dr. Thurnam (See engravings).! It 
also exhibits distinct, though partial, synostosis of the interparietal 
suture.? 
2, Calvarium. Cephalic index, 65:0. Found in an upright 
position. Cleft on left side—greater part of left temporal bone 
gone. Slightly gnawed by rodents, Coronal suture partially 
closed—also a portion of the sagittal. 
8. Calvarium (distorted)—bone but little decayed. Cephalic 
index, 72°0. Slight depression across the skull, behind the coronoid 
suture, as if produced by bandage in infancy. Slightly gnawed by 
rodents. Cleftin orbit of lefteye. Sutures, except frontal, not closed. 
4, Large portion of calvarium with left orbit. Cephalic index, 
66°6. Found in an upright position. Extensive cleavage of left 
side of skull. Traces of depression behind the coronoid. Slightly 
gnawed. Sutures, except frontal, quite open. 
5. Large part of calvarium—the upper part (bowl-shaped) had 
been cleft off, and was perfect when found. A marked depression 
across the skull, behind the coronoid. Gnawed by rodents. Sutures 
open. 
6. Upper part of a skull, cleft by a blow inflicted above the eyes. 
Thin. Coronal and sagittal sutures open. 
1 For the use of the woodcuts of Dr. Thurnam’s specimen (now in the Cambridge 
Museum) the Society is indebted to the Anthropological Society of Great Britain, 
by the kindness of F. W. Rudler, Esq. 
_ 2 The late Dr. Thurnam read a paper at the meeting of the British Association, 
at Bath, September, 1864, “On Synostosis of the Cranial Bones, especially of the 
parietals, regarded as a Race character in one class of Ancient British and in 
African Skulls.” He observes of the Ancient British skulls from the chambered 
and other Zong barrows of the Stone Period that the general form is elongated 
or dolichocephalous, aud that they are strikingly distinguished from the brachy- 
cephalous skulls from the circular barrows of the Bronze Period not only by 
their general form, but also by their greater tendency to early and premature 
obliteration of the sutures. The long form of the skull and the premature 
obliteration of the sutures appear to be coincident phenomena, not standing to 
each other in the relation of cause and effect, though they are probably both of 
them characteristic of the races.”’—Nat. Hist. Rev., No. xviii., April, 1865. 
These views are fully considered in the above-mentioned paper, and are illustrated 
by a table of measurements and by engravings of crania from various countries, 
including woodcuts of a skull from Bowl's Bartow. 
