EBBERSTON. 



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EBBERSTON. 



[No. in.] 



til 



CALVABIA OF PBOBABLY A WOMAN IN OB PAST THE MIDDLE PERIOD OF LIFE. 



Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length , 8.3" 



Fronto-inial length . . . 



Extreme breadth 4.6" 



Vertical height 6" 



Frontal arc 5.1" 



Parietal arc 5.5" 



From upper surface of external occipital protuberance to pos- 

 terior edge of foramen magnum, approximatively . . . 1.7" 

 Occipital arc to upper surface of external occipital protuber- 

 ance 2'5" 



The very imperfect calvaria, ' Ebberston iii,' has been described by 

 Dr. Thurnam in the 'Archaeological Journal,' vol. xxii. 1865, and 

 also in the ' Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London/ 

 vol. i. It has suffered very much from posthumous pressure, and 

 the measurements given of it must be taken as being merely 

 approximative. Still, there is abundant evidence furnished by 

 its form in its present condition for saying that it formed part 

 of an exaggeratedly dolichocephalic skull to which the name 

 I cymbocephalic,' proposed by Professor Daniel Wilson 1 in 1850, 

 may very appropriately be applied. No limb nor trunk bones 

 have been assigned to this calvaria, and some doubt may 

 exist as to the sex of its owner ; it is most probable perhaps 



1 See ' British Association Report for 1850,' p. 142. 



