By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S. 187 
Sutton, (vide pl. xii “ Hoare’s Wiltshire.”’) In a subsequent exami- 
nation of the rubbish which had been removed, another flint flake, 
and a fossil bivalve shell, apparently from the Green sand, was 
found. All the articles discovered on this occasion have been pre- 
sented to the Society by Mr. Coward. 
I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Thurnam for the following 
remarks on the bones found in this barrow. 
“The skull is that of an ancient Briton, an old man at least 
seventy, perhaps even eighty years of age. Many of the teeth have 
been lost during life, and of various others, including all the upper 
incisors, canines, and bicuspids, only the stumps remain, thus 
giving to the upper jaw a completely edentulous aspect. The 
crowns of the more perfect teeth in the lower jaw are very much 
ground down and hollowed out by the rough usage to which they 
have been subjected in the mastication of coarse, and perhaps half- 
cooked food. The nose has been somewhat abruptly prominent. 
The general form of the skull is a short oval, narrow in front and 
wide behind. The frontal sinuses are full, the brows have been 
prominent and overhanging. The forehead is somewhat receding, 
but elevated posteriorly, especially in the centre, giving a conical 
appearance to the front view of the skull. The middle (parietal) 
region of the cranium, is remarkable for disproportionate width, 
and the posterior (occipital) for width and flatness, especially the 
latter. The peculiarity of form in this last respect is decidedly 
unusual. The occipital ridge, and other processes for muscular 
attachment are strongly marked. The thickest part of the parietals 
measure the third of an inch. The probable weight of the brain 
has been recovered by a process which consists in filling the skull 
with sand, and after making certain requisite deductions, comparing 
the weight with that of the healthy human brain. By this means 
the brain is ascertained to have weighed 55 (54.8) ounces; this 
considerably exceeds, by nearly five ounces, the average weight of 
the adult brain in the modern European. The thigh bone measures 
twenty-one and a half inches in length, which may be taken as 
indicating a stature of not less than six feet. This is much greater 
than the probable stature of the ancient Britons in general, the 
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