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I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . . . 7-8" 

 Fronto-inial length . . 7.6" 

 Extreme breadth . . 5.25' 



Vertical height . . . 5-8" 

 Absolute height . . . 5*4" 

 Basi-cranial axis from an- 

 terior margin of foramen 

 magnum to naso-frontal 



suture, approximatively 

 Circumference 

 Frontal arc . 

 Parietal arc . 

 Occipital arc . 

 Minimum frontal width . 

 Maximum frontal width . 

 Maximum occipital width 



4-4 

 21.2' 



5" 



5"" 



5 .o" 



3-8" 



4-7" 



4-5" 



II. Measurements of Face. 

 naso-alveolar ' line 



• mterzygomatic ' line . 

 ' line, approximatively . 

 line, approximatively . 



Length of face : 

 Breadth of face 



* Basio-subnasal 



* Basio-alveolar ' 

 Height of orbit 

 Width of orbit 

 Length of nose 

 Lower jaw, width of ramus on level of grinding surface of 



molar teeth 



Length-breadth index : 

 Antero-posterior index 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 Facial angle to alveolar process 



III. Indices. 



' cephalic index ' 



3 



5-05" 

 4-05' 

 4-05' 

 1-4" 

 1-6*' 

 2.3" 



68 

 45 



67 

 63 



been effected here. This bone appears to have been more powerfully 

 developed than is usually the case in skulls of this type, its angle 

 having been square and everted and its coronoid having reached 

 above the level of its zygoma. The mastoids are of an extra- 

 ordinary length. There is a broad but shallow undulation on either 

 side of a raised sagittal carina posteriorly to the coronal suture. 

 Viewed in the norma verticalis, the skull is remarkable for the 

 very gradual way in which it grows narrower along the long 

 straight lateral boundaries from the barely recognisable region of 

 the parietal tubera up to the external orbital processes of the 

 frontal. This contour has been supposed 1 to characterise the 

 Anglo-Saxon rather than the Celtic type of head; there is however 

 no room for doubting that this cranium belonged to an inhabitant 

 of this country in the Bronze Period. The skull is phaenozygous. 

 The sagittal and coronal sutures are both obliterated internally, and 



1 See Professor Daniel Wilson, ' Canadian Journal,' New Series, vol. liv. Nov. 1864 ; 

 or ■ Anthropological Review,' vol. iii. Feb. 1865, London. The skull described on p. 175, 

 under the name of Weaverthorpe, Smith, iii. 3, is of the type which, while equally 

 long with the one described above, is distinguished by a sudden tapering in front of 

 the parietal tubera, and is supposed by the writer just cited to be characteristic of the 

 ' Insular Celt.' There is however no reason for holding that it belongs to a period 

 anterior to that of the skull Langton i. 



