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period (Journal Anth. Inst., vol. v. p. 152, and vol. vi. p. 34), a very 

 different history has to be given. Of the first of these, from the 

 barrow 'Nether Swell, ccxxix,' I write, 'The lower jaw is feeble. 

 The mental foramen corresponds to the interval between the second 

 bicuspid and first molar. The teeth are very much worn down, 

 and there are two or three alveolar-abscess cavities in the jaw. 

 One very large one occupies a great part of the molar region of 

 the left upper maxilla.' One of the male skulls from this barrow 

 shows the cavity of a small alveolar abscess ; and in another 

 several teeth had been lost before death. The second of these cases 

 is that of the woman recorded at p. 518 supra^ and Journal Anth. 

 Soc., 1. c., p. 158, of whom in the latter place I say, ' The lower 

 jaw of the old woman was feeblish as compared with some of the 

 male jaws, but not with all, from these barrows. It had lost no 

 teeth, from the half we recovered, during life, though the teeth 

 were very much worn down, and the first molar, notably, down to 

 its fangs ; in connection with both of which there were alveolar 

 abscesses.' Of the femur and other bones belonging to this 

 skeleton I say that they ' give the idea of their owner having had 

 hard work and poor food, viz. as they are slight, but with rough 

 ridges.' The third instance is furnished by the history of the young 

 woman found at Cissbury (Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. vi. p. 34), in 

 whom an alveolar abscess existed in relation with a lower pre- 

 molar, which had had its pulp cavity exposed by being broken 

 across midway between its grinding surface and its neck. Here 

 the two anterior molars were very much worn down, though 

 their owner was not more than twenty-five years of age, and the 

 wisdom teeth were scarcely worn at all. Subsequently to these 

 excavations two lower jaws affected with alveolar abscesses, both of 

 aged females, were found in the long barrow No. ccxxxii, described 

 by me above, p. 524 ; another similarly affected, but from a 

 powerful old male subject, was found in the same barrow. A third 

 as yet undescribed skull of an old woman of the stone period, 

 with extensive traces of the same mischief, was presented to me by 

 the late Rev. Canon Lysons, having been obtained by him from 

 a long barrow in Gloucestershire ; and three of the Rodmarton 

 long-barrow skulls, also from the collection of that antiquary, one of 

 an old man, one of the young man already referred to (p. 694**pra), 

 and one of an old woman, have suffered similarly. Of eight lower 

 jaws, of all ages and both sexes, discovered by Edward Laws, Esq., 

 in a cave near Tenby (see Journ. Anthrop. Institute, July, 1877), 



