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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. ix. 



gnathic). The nose was aquiline, and the forehead low 

 as compared with that of the round skulls (Fig. Ill) to 

 be described presently. Skulls possessed of these 

 characters have been described by Huxley and Wilson 

 from many places in Scotland, and they occur in Neolithic 

 tombs in England, Wales, and Ireland, under circum- 

 stances which render it impossible to doubt that the whole 

 of the British Isles was inhabited from the beginning to 

 the close of the Neolithic age by the same small race in 

 the same stage of culture. In Scotland it is identical 

 with the people possessed of (kumbecephalic) boat- 

 shaped skulls of Prof. Wilson/ and in Ireland by those 

 from chambered tombs, peat-mosses, and river-deposits, 

 described by Prof. Huxley as belonging to the river-bed 

 type, and by Dr. Thurnam to that of the " long bar- 



FIG. 110. Long Skull of Neolithic 

 Age, Long Barrow, Rodmarton. 



FIG. 111. Broad Skull of Bronze Age, 

 Round Barrow, Gristhorpe. 



rows." In Figures 110, 111, we have given outlines of 

 the two typical forms of skull, the long being obtained 

 from the chambered tomb at Eodmarton, and the broad 



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