DESCRIPTION OF F1GUKES OF SKULLS. 589 



which see skull 768 in Oxford University Museum, obtained from 

 the neighbourhood of Andeer by Dyce Duckworth, Esq., M.D., or 

 amongst the Finns l , for a specimen of which see a skull e Diocesi 

 Saarijdrvi presented to the University Museum by Professor E. 

 Eichwald. 



Still closer is the resemblance to this prehistoric British type 

 borne by the prehistoric Danish brachy-cephalic crania in which the 

 height is, contrary to what we see in modern European skulls of 

 the same type, greater than the breadth. A comparison indeed 

 of such a series as that which has been obtained from the small 

 Danish island of Moen, figures and casts of some of the crania of 

 which are readily accessible 2 , with such a series of skulls as that 

 which Canon Greenwell has presented to the Oxford Museum from 

 the British round barrows, is instructive in many ways. By 

 going over the entire number of specimens contained in such series 

 we learn, firstly, that forms so widely different at first sight as the 

 skull ' Cowlam, lix. 3,' and the one next to be described, or the one 

 from Borreby figured in Sir Charles Lyell's * Antiquity of Man ' 

 (p. 91, 4th ed. 1871), are nevertheless found in company and contem- 

 poraneity with each other in many barrows. Secondly, we find that 

 in many cases they are connected by transitional forms. Thirdly, in 

 series containing either well-developed and capacious skulls, such as 

 ' Cowlam, lix. 3/ or rough-hewn crania such as ' Rudstone, Ixiii. 9,' 

 the one next to be described, or both, we find in England 3 as well 

 as in Denmark skulls differing from them in being at once them- 

 selves * ill-filled,' and in being indicative of feebleness in their 

 owners. The existence of such skulls in such series in Denmark 

 has often been explained by supposing them to have belonged to 

 a Lapp population. This explanation however will not account 

 for their presence in the Bronze-Period barrows of this country. 



1 For the Ethnology of the Finns, see Virchow, Archiv f iir Anthropologie, vol. iv. 

 p. 78 ; Zeitschrift f iir Ethnologic, vol. v. p. 320. 



2 For figures of crania from the tumuli in Moen, see Nilsson's ' Stone Age ' (trans. 

 Lubbock), 1868, pi. xii. figs. 230-232, pi. xiii. fig. 240, pp. 121, 126; Sir John 

 Lubbock's ' Prehistoric Times' (3rd ed.), p. 159; Retzius' Ethnographische Schrifte, 

 pi. iii. fig. 2. A cast, No. 5710, of a small skull from Moen is to be seen in the 

 Royal College of Surgeons in London, and another of a larger one from Udby in the 

 same island was procured from the late Professor Thomsen through the kind offices 

 of Dr. F. Krebs for the Oxford University Museum. The original of this cast has 

 been measured and described by Professor Virchow in the Archiv fur Anthropologie, 

 torn. iv. pp. 68, 84, where he draws especial attention to its 'capsulares Hinterhaupt 

 mit starken Schaltknochen der Lambdanaht ' points observable in ' Cowlam, lix. 3/ 



3 The series from Cowlam, Rudstone, Weaverthorpe, Goodmanham, and some 

 others fumish specimens of small delicate skulls in company with one or other of the 

 larger and stronger varieties of the brachy-cephalic type. 



