630 GENERAL REMARKS 



limited to the bones and teeth, are, from the point of view of a 

 pathologist, comparatively scanty. Something has also to be said 

 as to the sources whence the food of these races came, whether from 

 domestic or from wild animals exclusively, or in combination with 

 each other and with agricultural produce. 



It will be convenient to begin by saying that I should speak of 

 the crania of the long barrow period, not as belonging to the 

 'Iberian^/ as it is becoming the fashion to style them, but as 

 belonging to the ' Silurian' type; and the brachy-cephalic crania of 

 the round barrow I should similarly speak of, not as belonging to 

 a ' Ligurian,' but to the ' Cimbric ' type. 



Tacitus, Agricola, xi, tells us that there was a tribe of people 

 called Silures living in the district which we know now as the 

 South Welsh counties of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Brecknock, Here- 

 ford, and Radnor ; he tells us further, as a matter of fact, that the 

 complexion and hair of this tribe could be described as ' colorati 

 vultus, torti plerumque crines,' words which Jornandes alters slightly, 

 making them a little clearer but perhaps less accurate, as (Get. 2) 

 ' Silurum colorati vultus, torto plerumque crine et nigro nascuntur.' 

 And we know that the black-haired type of the West of England 

 at the present day^ is shorter in stature and feebler in development, 

 and at the same time longer in skull-form than the lighter haired 

 and lighter complexioned variety. Therefore the longer skulls 

 found with shorter skeletons, but in the long barrows and there 

 to the exclusion of brachy-cephalic forms, I should speak of as 

 belonging to this ' Silurian^ type. 



The brachy-cephalic skulls of the bronze period which, as already 

 stated, are found in the round barrows mixed up with long skulls, 

 I shall speak of as belonging to a ' Cimbric ' type ; firstly, because 

 there is no doubt that a similar form of skull is found at the 

 present day to be the skull form of the inhabitants of Denmark, 



^ The earliest paper with which I am acquainted in which this name was adopted 

 for one division of the population of Great Britain is a paper, not \\'ithout its merits, 

 hy Dr. Hibbert Ware, to be found in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, vol. i. March 4, 1844. Keyser, in a letter of date April 21, 1847, addressed to 

 Eetzius and published by him in MuUer's Archiv, 1849, or see Ethnol. Schrift. p. 

 103, 1864, suggests that the Iberians may have been the primitive stone age inhabi- 

 tants of Great Britain and Ireland. This stock was then considered to be Turanian 

 and brachy-cephalic. Weinhold, who in his ' Altnordisches Leben ' had called the 

 stone-age race ' Finnish,' adopted the name ' Iberian ' in liis memoir ' Die heidnische 

 Todtenbestattung in Deutschland,' published in the Sitzungsberichte d. K. Akad. 

 d. W. phil. hist. CI. Wien. bd. xxix. hft. 2. p. 131. 



^ Dr. Beddoe, Mem. Anth. Soc. vol. ii. p. 350. 



