DESCRIPTION OF KIOURKS OF SKILLS. 



579 



HESLERTON WOLD. 



[v. p. 142.] 

 Skull of a man in the earlier portion of the middle period 



OF life. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



This skull presents many of the peculiarities distinctive of a male 

 brachy-cephalic skull of pre-historic times, and in a form which is by 

 no means extinct at the present day. It has lost considerable 

 portions of the left parietal and temporal bones, as also of the left 

 half of the occipital, by water- wear ; the rest of the skull however, 

 and the jaws^ are in good preservation. The forehead has the 

 obliquity so usually found in the skulls of strong- male subjects ; 

 the parieto-occipital region, on the other handj shows the abrupt dip 

 characteristic of the brachy-cephalic type. The external occipital 



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