Archaeological Section. 31 
Professor Rolleston once found some teeth in a Long Barrow 
stopped with gold. This puzzled him very much as the Ancients 
were not acquainted with the art of stopping teeth. One day he 
received a letter from a medical student who had found the skull, 
taken it home and practised stopping on the decayed teeth, then 
having placed the skull in the Barrow left the neighbourhoood. The 
skull belonged to the older race the Dolico-cephalic or Long 
headed men. 
Some teeth and flint implements were then passed round the 
room. 
The Lecturer produced two flint knives which cut up potatoes 
easily. The blades were of a triangular shape and curved towards 
the point. 
On May the 11th, several members of the Section accompanied 
Mr. Owen and Mr. Pruen to Gloucester and had the privilege of 
being conducted round the Cathedral by the Dean. There is no 
Cathedral so well adopted for the study of Architecture as 
Gloucester, which, it is pretty certainly settled, is the home of per- 
pendicular and of fantracery, and which possesses as grand an 
example of a Norman Nave as exists in this country. The 
peculiarity of the squat triforium, the largest East Window in the 
World, the tomb of Edward II. and of Robert Duke of Normandy, 
the Crypt and the Whispering Gallery, all combine to give Gloucester 
an interest which is surpassed by very few Cathedrals, while 
outside the actual Church we have the Chapter House where the 
Norman Kings held their Parliaments and where William I. spent 
the last Christmas before his death. 
On June 18th a large party availed themselves of the kindness 
of Mrs. Dent to visit Sudeley Castle in the neighbourhood of 
Winchcomb. 
The Mansion itself is architecturally one of the most interesting 
in the neighbourhood, but it is especially worth visiting on account 
of the pictures and relics of which it is fuli. Several who inspected 
them that day scattered through the noble halls at Sudeley have no 
doubt since seen them at the Tudor Exhibition. Additional interest 
is lent to Sudeley from it having been the home of Katherine Parr in 
her later days—she lies buried in the little chapel adjoining. Queen 
Elizabeth also stopped here when it was in the hands of the 
Seymours, and the bedchamber is shown which she is said to have 
occupied during her visit. 
