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Xor>ii<( Oc<-i i >}t<iHs (Plate III., Fig. f>). This view is distinctly 

 pentagonal in outline. The greatest breadth is well up on the pari- 

 etal bones, and the sides of the cranium below this are flattened, 

 giving an " ill-filled " appearance. 



Nor mi i /<''((/(///' # (Plate III., Fig. <>). The face is very broad, 

 with the chin protuberant and sloping forwards ; however, there is no 

 actual prognathism the gnathic index is only 90 - 4. The malar emin- 

 ences are not prominent. 



As only the skull has been preserved no estimate can be formed 

 of the stature. 



7. ARDOE SHOI;T CIST. 



1 " Skull and bones found in a short cist at Ardoe, Kincardine- 

 shire. Presented by A. M. Ogston, Esq." 



SKULL. The face and base of the skull are a good deal broken, 

 so that the cubic capacity cannot be obtained. The skull is that of 

 a male with fairly prominent supraorbital ridges. 



The noniiu rcrtictilis is broadly oval with brachycephalic propor- 

 tions, the cranial index being 82-8. The vertex is rather flattened and 

 lengthened from bregma to obelion. 



The iiornHt owipittili* is of the " ill-filled " type, being of penta- 

 gonal outline with the parietal eminences high up and the, maximum 

 diameter here. 



The face of this skull is quite destroyed. The other bones of the 

 skeleton are too fragmentary to admit of any measurements being 

 taken, and hence no estimate of stature can be formed. 



8. AUCHINDOIU SHORT CIST. 



1 " Contents of short cist found at Ord, Auchindoir, in 1857. 

 Presented by the liev. William lieid, minister of Auchindoir." 



Besides a very beautiful and almost complete male skeleton, this 

 cist contained an urn of the " drinking-vessel " type. 



1 Museum label. 

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