CASTLE CARROCK. 



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I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . 

 Fronto-inial length 

 Extreme breadth 

 Vertical height . 

 Absolute height . 

 Basi-cranial axis . 

 Circumference 



7 



7 



5-6" 



5-7" 



5-4" 



4*°5 



20.7' 



Cubical capacity . 

 Frontal arc . 

 Parietal arc . 

 Occipital arc . 

 Minimum frontal width 

 Maximum frontal width 

 Maximum occipital width 



95 

 5-3 



4.9" 

 4 . 4 " 



3-95' 

 5-i" 

 4-7" 



II. Measurements of Face. 



Length of face : ' naso-alveolar ' line 

 Breadth of face : ' interzygomatic' line 

 1 Basio-subnasal ' line 

 ' Basio-alveolar ' line 



2.8" 

 5-2" 

 3-7" 

 3-9" 



Height of orbit 1-5" 



Width of orbit 1.7" 



Length of nose ........ 2*05' 



Width of nose ........ 1.2" 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 4.4" 



Lower jaw, depth at symphy sis . . . . 1.3" 



Lower jaw, width of ramus ..... . 1-3" 



Length-breadth index : 

 Antero-posterior index 

 Basilar angle . 



III. Indices, 

 cephalic index ' 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 Facial angle to alveolar border 



So 

 52 

 24 



71 



66 



together with the remarkably small size of its mastoids and its lesser 

 absolute and relative height, may seem to indicate that it is a 

 female skull. However this may be, there can be no doubt that 

 they both are what Dr. Barnard Davis has said one of them, viz. 

 the Tosson skull, is, ' of the typical series of ancient British crania, 5 

 and of the typical series, I should add, of the Bound Barrow or 

 Bronze Period. As an individual peculiarity in the Castle Carrock 

 skull not observed among the other brachycephalic skulls here 

 figured, may be noted 1 the fact that when placed without its lower 

 jaw, but with the grinding surface of its upper molar teeth upon 

 a horizontal surface, it touches that surface posteriorly, not with its 

 conceptacula cerebelli, but with its occipital condyles. This is 

 mainly due to the downgrowth- of these processes, but also in part 

 to the upward slant of the cerebellar fossae, a point more common in 

 brachycephalic than in other crania, and not indicative of deficient 

 cranial curvature when coupled, as in this case, with a vertical 

 forehead. 



This skull and the five here described before it are all alike 



1 See Ecker, ' Archiv fur Anthropologic,' iv. p. 301, cit. p. 172 supra. 



