COWLAM. 



189 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : ' cephalic index ' 

 Antero-posterior index . . 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 Facial angle to alveolar edge . 



84 

 50 

 72 

 69 



height is, contrary to what we see in modern European skulls of 

 the same type, greater than the breadth. A comparison indeed 

 of such a series as that which has been obtained from the small 

 Danish island of Moen, figures and casts of some of the crania of 

 which are readily accessible 1 , with such a series of skulls as that 

 which Canon Greenwell has presented to the Oxford Museum from 

 the British round barrows, is instructive in many ways. By 

 going over the entire number of specimens contained in such series 

 we learn, firstly, that forms so widely different at first sight as the 

 skull ' Cowlam, lix. 3,' and the one next to be described, or the one 

 from Borreby figured in Sir Charles LyelPs ' Antiquity of Man ' 

 (p. 91, 4th ed. 1871), are nevertheless found in company and contem- 

 poraneity with each other in many barrows. Secondly, we find that 



1 For figures of crania from the tumuli in Moen, see Nilsson's ' Stone Age ' (trans. 

 Lubbock), 1868, pi. xii. figs. 230-232, pi. xiii. fig. 240, pp. 121, 126; Sir John 

 Lubbock's ' Prehistoric Times' (3rd ed.), p. 159 ; Retzius' ' Ethnographische Schriften,' 

 pi. iii. fig. 1. A cast, No. 5710, of a small skull from Moen is to be seen in the 

 Royal College of Surgeons in London, and another of a larger one from Udby in the 

 same island was procured from the late Professor Thomsen through the kind offices 

 of Dr. F. Krebs for the Oxford University Museum. The original of this cast has 

 been measured and described by Professor Virchow in the ■ Archiv fur Anthropologic,' 

 torn. iv. pp. 68, 84, where he draws especial attention to its ' capsulares Hinterhaupt 

 mit starken Schaltknochen der Lambdanaht,' points observable in 'Cowlam, lix. 3.' 



