DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 



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CASTLE CARROCK, CUMBERLAND. 



[clxiii. p. 379.] 



Skull of a man advanced in years. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



II. Measurements of Face. 



Length of face : ' naso-alveolar ' line .... 28" 



Breadth of face : ' interzygomatic ' line . . . 5"2" 



' Basio-subnasal ' line ....... 37" 



' Basio-alveolar ' line 3*9" 



Height of orbit 1-5" 



Width of orbit 1-7" 



Length of nose 2"05" 



Width of nose 1'2" 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter ..... 4' 4" 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis ..... 1'3" 



Lower jaw, width of ramus ...... 1-3" 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : ' cephalic index ' ... 80 



Antero-posterior index ....... 52 



Basilar angle ......... 24 



Facial angle to nasal spine ...... 71 



Facial angle to alveolar border 66 



With the skull ' Castle Carrock, Camberland,' no bones of the 

 trunk or limbs have come into ray hands ; there is considerable 

 reason however, from the consideration of the skull alone, for saying 

 that this skull belonged to a man much ' past the middle period of 

 life,' if not to an ' aged' man. The still outstanding muscular and 

 other processes in the lower part of the skull and the still powerful 

 lower jaw show that the owner of this skull was a person of con- 

 siderable strength, whilst the general rounding off of the angular 

 portion of the vault of the skull seems referable to the working of 

 senile absorption. The diploic sinuses are exposed on either side in 



