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in this case owing to its intrinsic wall-sidedness in the temporal and 

 parietal regions, especially in the posterior half of the skull. The 

 parietal and occipital arcs each exceed their normal length by y^ths 

 of an inch. The lower jaw being imperfect it is not easy to form 

 an accurate estimate of the amount of compression which may have 

 been effected here. This bone appears to have been more powerfully 

 developed than is usually the case in skulls of this type, its angle 

 having been square and everted and its coronoid having reached 

 above the level of its zygoma. The mastoids are of an extra- 

 ordinary length. There is a broad but shallow undulation on either 

 side of a raised sagittal carina posteriorly to the coronal suture. 

 Viewed in the norma verticalis, the skull is remarkable for the 

 very gradual way in which it grows narrower along the long 

 straight lateral boundaries from the barely recognisable region of 

 the parietal tubera up to the external orbital processes of the 

 frontal. This contour has been supposed 1 to characterise the 

 Anglo-Saxon rather than the Celtic type of head ; there is however 

 no room for doubting that this cranium belonged to an inhabitant 

 of this country in the Bronze Period. The skull is phsenozygous. 

 The sagittal and coronal sutures are both obliterated internally, and 

 the sagittal is obliterated on the outside of the skull in the region 

 where such obliteration usually shows itself first, viz. in the region 

 of the foramina emissaria. On the right half of the frontal bone 

 there is a wound 3" long and V wide, sloping downwards from 

 a point about an inch in front of the point where the sagittal meets 

 the coronal suture very nearly to the point where the temporal 

 line passes from the lateral cranial wall on to the external orbital 

 process. The floor of the wound is formed for a little over 2" by 

 the diploe, the cavities of which are filled with black earth of the 

 same kind, apparently, as that which has given the entire exterior 

 surface of the skull its dingy appearance. The outer table forms 

 the lateral boundaries and the floor at either end of the wound. 

 The inner table of the skull does not appear to have been affected 

 by the blow, and the wound may be taken as an instance of ' un- 

 depressed gouged out fracture,' for accounts of which kind of injury 



1 See Professor Daniel Wilson, Canadian Journal, New Series, vol. liv. Nov. 1864 ; 

 or Anthropological Review, vol. iii. Feb. 1865, London. The skull described below, 

 under the name of Weaverthorpe, Smith, iii. 3, is of the type which, while equally 

 long with the one described above, is distinguished by a sudden tapering in front of 

 the parietal tubera, and is supposed by the writer just cited to be characteristic of the 

 ' Insular Celt. 5 There is however no reason for holding that it belongs to a period 

 anterior to that of the skull Langton i. 



