SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. '21 



10. TYKIK SHORT CIST (ft). 



1 " Skull and 1 tones found in a short cist at Boyndie, Tyrie." 



SKULL. The skull is much broken, all that part of cranium an 

 inch to the right of the middle line being quite gone. The left half 

 of face and nasal aperture are fairly complete. 



The skull is evidently that of a female ; the orbital margins are 

 fine, the supraorbital ridges poorly developed and the muscular mark- 

 ings slight. The left half of the horizontal circumference can be 

 taken, and by doubling this we get an approximate horizontal cranial 

 circumference of 480 mm. 



Noniut Vertirii/i*. This view is broadly oval and the glabella is 

 seen while the zygomata are concealed. The vault is almost uni- 

 formly convex, the highest point being just behind the bregma. 

 There is slight "keeling" and the parietal eminences are high up 

 and well forward. The cranial index is 87 "2. 



Xormn Lntcm/i*. The glabella is smooth and rounded and the 

 frontal is steep. The outline from nasion to inion, as seen from the 

 side, closely corresponds to the segment of a circle with its centre 

 above and in front of the external auditory meatus. There is no 

 projection of the occipital pole. 



Xoniia FacAalis. The face is broad, especially above. The 

 gnathic index is 96 '9. The outer angles of the orbits are receding 

 and the orbits are microseme. The nasal aperture is almost platy- 

 rhine. 



Normit Orripitnlix. This is pentagonal in outline with the 

 parietal eminences high up and the greatest breadth between these 

 points. 



A few pieces of the bones of the extremities are preserved, but 

 they are too much broken to admit of measurement, and hence no 

 estimate can be made of the stature. 



1 Museum label. 



