By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S8. 113 
Thurnam in the following passage from “ Crania Britannica,” 
Speaking of human teeth from a chambered long barrow at Uley, 
Gloucestershire, he says :—‘The worn surfaces of the teeth are not flat 
and horizontal, but slope away obliquely. . . . The lower teeth are 
much worn on the outer, and the upper on their inner edges. The 
condition is altogether such as we must attribute to a rude people 
subsisting in great measure on the products of the chase and other 
animal food—ill-provided with implements for its division, and 
bestowing little care on its preparation—rather than to an agri- 
a i ae S. e iii, 
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eultural tribe living chiefly on corn and fruits. In Anglo-Saxon 
crania, though the crowns of the teeth are much reduced by attrition, 
the worn surfaces are for the most part remarkably horizontal,” 
There are instances, such as the skull from Winterbourne Stoke 
long barrow, which Dr. Thurnam describes as having the teeth “ all 
present, beautifully white, and with scarcely a trace of erosion on their 
crowns.” He further says :—“‘ It is probably that of a young chief 
whose diet principally consisted of milk and flesh, which Cesar tells 
us was in his time still the food of the Britons of the interior.” ! 
_ But it must be noted that this was “ the skull of a’ young chief,” 
to whose honour, it is supposed, the barrow was raised. Very 
different would be the circumstances of the unfortunates—the de- 
pendants or slaves, who were slaughtered at the burial of the great 
chiefs. “As in the case of the victims from Bowl’s Barrow, and in 
the instance from Uley, as cited above, the people generally must 
have been subject to great hardships, and their food was probably 
of the coarsest kind. 
It has been remarked by Canon Greenwell that “ All the races 
‘of men, in their tedious march towards civilization, must have 
passed through the stage of cannibalism.” He considers that in 
the disjointed, cleft, and broken conditions of many of the bones 
in long barrows we have indications of funereal feasts, where slaves, 
captives, &c., were slain and eaten. Bowl’s Barrow affords no ex- 
tion to the broken and disjointed condition of the bones, but 
ch of the breakage must have been due to the ponderous stones 
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