202 DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 



brachycephalic by contour as well as by mere measurement. In 

 all of them, with the exception of ' Kudstone, lxiii. 9,' the ' vertical 

 height' is greater than or at least equal to the ' extreme breadth ;"* in 

 all of them the posterior part of the parietal bones curves downwards 

 more or less vertically, making thus the distance between the plane 

 of the parietal tubera and that of the back of the head shorter than 

 it is in dolichocephalic skulls and throwing the foramina emissaria 

 entirely on to the back aspect of the cranium. In none of them, 

 whether young or old, is either the coronal or the lambdoid suture 

 entirely obliterated, showing that the form of the skull in them, as 

 we shall hereafter see it is also in the dolichocephalic variety, is 

 dependent upon that of the brain and not upon any synostosis. 



With this skull, undoubtedly the oldest of those as yet described, 

 the series of brachycephalic skulls here figured ends ; in the 

 arrangement of the dolichocephalic series, next to be entered upon, 

 similar regard has been had to age ; and the first skull of that 

 series, 'Langton Wold, ii. 1,' differs from the skull ' Castle Carrock' 

 in the matter of age as much as in any other of its distinctive 

 peculiarities. 



LANGTON WOLD. 



[ii. 1. p. 136.] 



The femora and pelvic bones taken together with the cranium 

 show that the skeleton, Langton Wold i, belonged to a strong man 

 in the early part of middle life, that is to say probably between 

 30 and 35, of very considerable muscular strength, and about 5 ft. 9 in. 

 in stature. The sacrum and ossa innominata have their sutures 

 and epiphyses completely anchylosed. The two posterior molars 

 however on each side of the jaws are comparatively worn. The 

 femur is of great strength, flanged out in the region of the upper 

 insertion of the glutaeus maximus so as to give this part of the 

 bone a flattened appearance; the inner division of the upper bifurca- 

 tion of the linea aspera is prolonged into a spiral ridge continuous 

 with the anterior intertrochanteric line, a peculiarity much more 

 marked in the much smaller femora of the skeleton next to be 

 described ; whilst the size of the linea aspersa in the area over 

 which its two lips are combined is such as to give the fluted 

 appearance to the posterior aspect of the femur which has procured 



