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height more respectable as compared with the present living one 

 than its stunted predecessor. Dr. Beddoe has selected the accom- 

 panying portrait as representing this almost extinct broad-headed 

 type of the bronze age. It is said to be not uncommon in the remoter 



Round-Barrow Bronze-Age Type. Cumberland. 



parts of Cumberland. The heavy brow ridges seem to be a notice- 

 able peculiarity of it. 



The generally accepted view among anthropologists to-day is 

 that the round-barrow men came over from the mainland, bringing 

 with them a culture derived from the east. We can never know 

 with certainty whether they were Celtic immigrants from Brittany; 

 where, as we have already shown, a similar physical type prevails 

 to-day such is Thurman's view: or whether they were the van- 

 guard of the invaders from Denmark, where a round-headed type 

 was for a time well represented, an opinion to which Dr. Rolleston 

 inclines. This latter hypothesis is strengthened by study of the 

 modern populations, both of Norway and the Danish peninsula. 

 For example, turn for a moment to our map on page 158, showing 

 the head form in Scandinavia to-day. Notice how the tints darken, 

 that is to say, the heads broaden, in the southwest corner of Norway. 

 The same thing is true just across the Skager Back in Denmark 

 proper, where the round-headed type is still more frequent than im- 

 mediately to the south in Schleswig-Holstein and Hanover. This 

 neighborhood was once a distinct subcenter of distribution of this 

 type. It might readily have come over to England from here, as 

 the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons did a few centuries later. Differing 

 in these details as to their precise geographical origin, all authorities 



