HESLEKTON WOLD. 181 



tous des sepultures particulieres.' See ' Memoires d' Anthropologic,' 

 '*> PP- 354> 355, l8 7 x ; or 'Bull. Soc. Anthr. de Paris/ vol. ii. Ser. i. 

 p. 510. 



HESLERTON WOLD. 



[v. p. 142.] 



This skull presents many of the peculiarities distinctive of a male 

 brachycephalic skull of pre-historic times, and in a form which is 

 by no means extinct at the present day. It has lost considerable 

 portions of the left parietal and temporal bones, as also of the left 

 half of the occipital, by water-wear; the rest of the skull however, 

 and the jaws, are in good preservation. The forehead has the 

 obliquity so usually found in the skulls of strong male subjects ; 

 the parietooccipital region, on the other hand, shows the abrupt dip 

 characteristic of the brachycephalic type. The external occipital 

 protuberance is the most backwardly placed portion of the skull ; 

 and the extreme length and the fronto-inial length therefore 

 coincide. The absence however of the portions of the skull-walls 

 specified enables us to see that the cerebral hemisphere of the left 

 side has overlapped the cerebellum by a considerable length. 

 The point of maximum transverse width lies at a lower level 

 than and anteriorly to the faintly-marked parietal tubera which are 

 situated far back in the norma verticalis. In this view the skull 

 itself is seen to be little more bluntly oval and more globosely 

 rounded out than the figure given of it. The supraciliary ridges 

 are largely developed, a broad but shallow and transversely sutured 

 furrow representing the glabella between them. The muscular and 

 mastoid ridges are large, the teeth however are small, and the 

 wisdom teeth have not been developed in either jaw. The sagittal 

 and coronal sutures are open in both tables of the skull. This skull 

 represents in an early period of life the same modification of the 

 brachycephalic type which we have represented to us in advanced 

 life by such forms as that of ' Rudstone, lxiii. 9/ figured and described 

 below at pages 190, 192, and in which we find a markedly oblique 

 frontal combined with a parietooccipital region as markedly vertical. 

 The lesser obliquity of the frontal slope 1 in the skull now before us 



1 See Cleland, ' Phil. Trans.,' 1870, pp. 136, 163, and p. 190, note, infra. 



