124 Notes on Bowl’s Barrow. 
No. 28. Portion of alveolar, palatine, and zygomatic processes 
of an adult right upper maxilla, containing the lateral incisor, 
canine, bicuspids, and first and second molars, with the empty 
sockets of the central incisor (lost since death). The teeth are 
fairly worn, and the lateral incisor is separated from the canine by 
a space the width of a new shilling, the canine being separated from 
the first bicuspid by about half that distance. 
A large antral cavity exists in the specimen, of a somewhat oval 
shape, 
No. 29. The alveolar process of left upper maxilla, from a young 
adult, containing the two bicuspids and three molars, slightly worn, 
but the wisdom tooth has evidently been in position but a short 
time. The base of a lozenge-shaped antrum is displayed. 
N. 80. Fragment of the alveolar process of a nght upper young 
adult maxilla, from a subjeet even younger than the preceding one, 
the teeth—the second and third molars—being very little worn 
indeed. 
No. 381. Fragment of left upper maxilla from a young subject, 
containing the lateral and canine teeth, scarcely worn at all. The 
empty socket of the central incisor is also present. 
The lateral incisor displays a well-marked cingulum. 
The important conclusions at which our late friend and fellow- 
member, Dr. Thurnam, arrived, as the result of his researches in 
the barrows of the south-west of England, though adopted by most 
modern antiquaries, are not as yet generally known.—It may be 
well to give a brief summary. 
I.—That the Jong barrows are older than the round barrows, so 
numerous in the district. 
II.—That they contain the relics of “ the earliest inhabitants of 
Britain of whom any sepulchral monuments remain.” 
I1I.—That the crania from the primary interments of these long 
barrows are invariably long in shape—dolichocephalic, or hyper- 
dolichocephalic.! 
1 For a full explanation of the classification and nomenclature of the forms of 
human crania, see a paper by Dr. Garson, p. 595 of the last vol. of the Magazine. 
