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same collection from the round-barrow period there were 7 cases. 



In 60 Yorkshire dolicho-cephali, however, Mr. Mummery says no 



less than 24 exhibited more or less disease ; and in 44 other skulls 



ranged with the long-barrow series, some from Mr. Bateman's 



Derbyshire series and some from other sources, much wearing 



down of the teeth and 9 cases of caries were noted ; but alveolar 



abscesses were comparatively rare. In the Park Cwm tumulus in the 



peninsula of Gower, South Wales, described by Sir John Lubbock 



(Journal Ethn. Soc. London, vol. ii. 1870, pp. 416-419), and of 



the same { horned ' character and possibly of the same race and time 



as the Gloucester tumuli next to be spoken of, amongst skeletal 



remains representing 24 individuals, 21 of whom were adults, Dr. 



D. M. Douglas found ' the teeth wonderfully preserved, very good 



and regular/ and ' only two that exhibited signs of decay during 



life.' In my examination of the entire series of bones, fragmentary 



as well as perfect, from several chambers in long barrows in 



Gloucestershire, I find very much the same state of things which 



Mr. Mummery has described from the Wiltshire burials of the 



same period. Ten lower jaws, nine of which were from persons 



beyond the age of puberty, were recovered from a chamber in the 



long barrow described by Canon Greenwell, pp. 514-520 supra^ 



and by me in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Oct. 



1875, p. 160 ; and of them I write (I. <?.), ' In none of these lower 



jaws had any teeth been lost before death, in only one is there any 



caries visible, and in one other (of an old woman, see p. 165) there 



is a cavity formed by an alveolar abscess in connection with a 



lower front molar worn down to the fangs and with its pulp 



cavities almost obliterated by osteodentine.' Similarly of the six 



lower jaws, all but one of which must have belonged to strong 



adult men, recovered from a chamber in the long barrow at Upper 



Swell described by Canon Greenwell at p. 521 sujira, and by me at 



p. 168 of the Journal Anth. Soc. (I. c.) I write, ' In every case but 



one the full number of teeth was retained up to the time of death, 



even though the teeth are very much worn in most cases, and in 



some even down to close upon the fangs. There was only one 



case of caries/ I should have added that some traces of an alveolar 



abscess are to be seen in the jaw which had lost teeth before death, 



and that this jaw appears to have belonged to a man, whilst the jaw 



with caries belonged probably to a woman. 



On the other hand, of the teeth of three females, also already 

 described by me and all undoubtedly from the stone and bone 



