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ing radius. Length of radius lias the usual proportion to length of 

 humerus. 



Both femora are stout, muscular-looking bones of a medium 

 length. The linea aspera is thick and prominent. There is a distinct 

 flattening of the upper third of the shaft of femur, and in place of a 

 gluteal ridge there is a fossa. 



Both tibiae show very distinct platycnemia, and in each bone 

 there seems to be a twist in its long axis, so that the internal inal- 

 leolus comes to lie more forward than usual. 



Both fibulae are extremely stout bones with strong ridges and 

 deep muscular impressions. The shaft of these bones is flattened 

 from before back instead of from side to side, and shows extensive 

 surfaces for the attachments of the peronei and flexor longus hallucis 

 muscles. 



The femoro-tibial index is 74'5, a good deal less than in the aver- 

 age modern European ; that is, the tibia is relatively short. 



The stature as estimated from the femur would have been 5 feet 

 6 inches. 



This cist then contained the skeleton of an adult male of med- 

 ium stature, very muscular and having a broad high head with narrow 

 orbits. 



9. FOVERAN SHORT CIST. 



1<( Contents of short cist found at Foveran in 1869." There is 

 preserved the skeleton of an adult female. 



SKULL. The base of the skull and the face have been destroyed. 

 The sutures are quite distinct and the teeth are. not worn down. 



Normit Vertimlu. This norma is ellipsoid in outline, fairly wide 

 in the frontal region and widening uniformly as it passes back to the 

 parietal region. The minimum frontal diameter is only slightly less 

 than the asterionic diameter. This skull is relatively much narrower 

 than any other skull of the series ; the cranial index is 78 '5, so that the 

 cranium is mesaticephalic. 



1 Museum label. 



