WEAVERTHORPE. 



175 



Extreme length . 

 Fronto-inial length 

 Extreme breadth . 

 Vertical height 

 Circumference 



Measurements of Calvaria. 



7-2" Frontal arc 



7" Parietal arc 



5-8" Occipital arc . 



6" Minimum frontal width 



20-8" Maximum frontal width 



II. Measurements of Face. 

 naso-alveolar' line .... 



5 



5" 

 4.9/ 



3-9', 

 4-7' 



2.6" 



5-2" 



77 



73 



1-3" 



i-5' 



1.9" 



i-o" 



3-6' 



i-3' 



Length of face : 



Breadth of face : ' interzygomatic ' line 



Facial angle to nasal spine 



Facial angle to alveolar border 



Height of orbit .... 



Width of orbit .... 



Length of nose .... 



Width of nose .... 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter . 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis 



Lower jaw, width at ramus ...... 1.5" 



III. Indices. 



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



Antero-posterior index, approximative^ . . . 51 



This skull and the one next to be described (Flixton Wold, lxxi. 5 1 ) 

 belong respectively to a young man and a young woman of the 

 brachycephalic type, and of about the same age, viz. from twenty 

 to twenty-four years of age, the age and the sex both having been 

 determined by an examination of the trunk and limbs as well as of 

 the cranial bones. They may be taken therefore as good illustra- 

 tions of the form of the brachycephalic type in early maturity, as 

 the skull Heslerton Wold, p. 181, may be taken to illustrate 

 this type in the earlier portion of middle life ; the skulls ' Ilderton,' 

 * Cowlam, lix. 3/ and ; Rudstone, lxiii. 9/ its form in the later 

 periods of middle age ; and ' Castle Carrock, ccxiii. 1,' its pecu- 

 liarities as modified by senile changes. 



The owner of this skull must have been a young man of very 

 great muscular strength, the femur being flanged out into a large 

 flat process anteriorly to the upper part of the insertion of the 

 glutaeus maximus, and the linea aspera attaining similarly large 

 proportions, though traces of the anchyloses of its head and epi- 

 physes are still visible. It may be remarked that Dr. Holder, in 

 his description 2 of the brachycephalic type at present existing in 

 Wurtemberg, and called by him the 'Ligurian,' says that in them the 

 upper third of the femur is flattened from before backwards, but it 

 may be doubted whether this peculiarity has any morphological value. 



1 [The Koman numerals here and elsewhere in tb.1'0 description refer to the number 

 of the barrow in ' British Barrows.' — Editor.] 



2 'Archiv fiir Anthropologic,' ii. p. 54, 1867. 



