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branch of the Keltic stock, the elder branch. But I venture t 

 contend that we are not in a position to define their racial affinity 

 which can be done only by the scientific examination of their 

 osseous remains. To shew our ignorance in this matter, I may 

 mention that the late Dr. Thurnam informed me, he had seen 

 only three skulls, which were sent to him by their discoverer the 

 late Eev. W. C. Lukis, from cromlechs in & uernsey and Herm, 

 and these were so fragmentary that accurate measurement was 

 impossible, but they appeared to be " dolichocephalous " (the 

 elongate type of skull). The Eev. W. C. Lukis, F.S.A., who is 

 well known for his acquaintance with the dolmens of Brittany, 

 has also informed me, that the data necessary for determining 

 the skull-form are not to be found in the Museums there. The 

 determination of this point makes an earnest appeal to Anthro- 

 pological research. 



But as regards the Long-barrow folk and the Brythonic Kelt80 ) 

 their osteology has been submitted to anatomical examination 

 with striking results. The former, who are denominated Ileri, 

 conjecturally an Iberian race, are of the most remote antiquity 

 and unknown origin, totally distinct from the round-barrow race 

 in their osteological characters, and whose grave-mounds have 

 never produced a trace of metal, and very little of any other kind 

 of artistic fabrication. Their skeletons are of low stature, small, 

 boned, and skulls of elongate type with well-formed features > 

 whilst those of the Keltic are tall, big-boned, with skulls of 

 short or broad type fbrachycephalic] and coarse features with 

 negro-like projecting facial angle. They are manifestly two dis- 

 tinct races. I imagine that their habits and customs corresponded 

 with the differences of their respective organization, and that the 

 former may have been a quiet, peaceful, pastoral people, whilst 

 the latter were barbarous, fierce, and warlike " gens aspera, 

 audax, bellicosa "* I think I see this in the fact, that the Long- 

 barrows are always found in or near the borders of pasture-land, 

 and never, to my knowledge, in the Heath and Moorland, where 



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