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for such bones the name of ' femurs a colonnes' (Topinard, ' L'An- 

 thropologie,' p. 324, 1876). 



This skull, and the one next to be described, Duggleby i. 2, may 

 be taken as typical representatives of the male and female form 

 respectively of the Hohberg type of His and Rutimeyer as described 

 and figured in the ' Crania Helvetica' of those authors. There can 

 be no doubt as to the respective sexes and ages of these two skulls, 

 the trunk and limb-bones of both having been available for 

 examination as well as the crania, though many of both sets of 

 bone in both cases have suffered considerably from posthumous 

 injury, and have to be spoken of as reconstructed. 



There are several modifications of the dolichocephalic type found 

 in barrows of the Neolithic Period which do not correspond with 

 the Hohberg type just mentioned; that type however is found 

 in those barrows, and these skulls, though of a later date, very 

 fairly represent it, and their respective sexes being certainly fixed 

 they enable us to distinguish in this type the characters which 

 have an ethnographical from those which have merely a sexual 

 significance. 



The skull, Langton Wold i, is distinctly and essentially ortho- 

 gnathous, as shown by comparison of the basi-cranial with the 

 basio-subnasal and basio-alveolar lengths ; the supraciliary ridges 

 owe their large size to the masculine character of the skeleton they 

 belong to, they meet, however, as these ridges are said to do in this 

 type by the ethnologists just referred to, without that depression in 

 the middle glabellar line which is usual in the brachycephali ; the 

 median vertical contour describes the characteristically equable 

 dolichocephalic curve from the point where the glabella sinks into 

 the oblique facies frontalis of the os frontis to the centre of the su- 

 perior squama occipitis, where a spot T %" anterior to the upper side 

 of the external occipital protuberance, and T V' anterior to the com- 

 mencement of a linea nuchae mediana, separated by a slight interval 

 from that largely developed ridge, marks the back of the skull. This 

 occipital dolichocephaly, plain enough also on simple inspection, is 

 further made manifest by its low antero-posterior index, 45, though 

 it is right to say that the skull has probably undergone some 

 compression with the usual result of producing a lengthening, and 

 in this case owing to its intrinsic wall-sidedness in the temporal and 

 parietal regions, especially in the posterior half of the skull. The 



