By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.8. 117 
these bones during the time that they were lying unburied, though 
it is difficult to understand how these animals could have abounded 
on the oven downs. 
All the specimens found on this occasion have been presented by 
the lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Lord Heytesbury, to the 
Wiltshire Museum. 
The numerous fragments of jaws with teeth have afforded to the 
experienced eye of Mr. Storer Bennett means of judging of the 
approximate age of the individuals, and have also enabled him to 
obtain some curious particulars relative to the health and habits of 
living of these people. He has favoured the Wiltshire Archzological 
Society with the results of his examination, as follow :— 
Report oN Jaws AND TEETH FROM Bowt’s Barrow, 
By Mr. Storer Bennett, 
F.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P., Lond., L.D.S. Eng., 
Hon. Curator, Museum Odontological Society, Great Britain. 
No. 1. Cranium of a young adult (probably between 20 and 25 
years of age). The sutures are in most eases ossified, but this takes 
place earlier in the less intellectual races than among those which 
are more civilized and cultivated and whose brains continue to in- 
crease in size up to a late period of life; the very small amount of 
wear, however, to which the wisdom tooth has been subjected, shows 
that its eruption cannot have preceded by more than a year or two 
the death of its owner, 
The specimen contains all the teeth on the left side behind the 
lateral incisor, and on the sight side the second bicuspid and first 
and second molars. The sockets for the other teeth are present, 
though damaged in transit by railway. 
The palatine arch is fine and well formed, the bony ridge for 
muscular attachment being very prominent. The groove for the 
transmission of the posterior palatine vessel and nerve along the 
_ palate is crossed by a little bridge of bone on each side, just in front 
of the palate bone, thus converting the groove into a foramen. 
The teeth are somewhat worn from the coarseness of the food 
