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bone to the other, must have put the men of the round-barrow 

 time into even sharper contrast with the surviving descendants 

 of the men of the stone and bone ages. The eyebrows in 

 the powerful men of the later period, if developed at all in cor- 

 respondence with the large underlying frontal sinuses and supra- 

 orbital ridges, must have given a beetling and probably even for- 

 bidding appearance to the upper part of the face, whilst the boldly 

 outstanding and heavy cheek bones must have produced an im- 

 pression of raw and rough strength and ponderosity entirely in 

 keeping with it. Overhung at its root, the nose must have 

 projected boldly forwards, not merely beyond the plane of the 

 forehead,, but much beyond that of the prominent eyebrows them- 

 selves. In some cases, but not by any means in so many as 

 might a priori have been expected, the somewhat lengthy 

 upper jaw had its anterior or incisive segment projecting so 

 as to constitute alveolar prognathism, whilst the sockets of the 

 canines and those teeth themselves attained such a development 

 as to give a somewhat square appearance to the jaw when viewed 

 from in front. The lower jaw, which in every well-marked variety 

 of the human species contributes very importantly towards the 

 making up of its distinctive character, was in the brachycephalous 

 Briton usually a very different bone from the lower jaw of his 

 Silurian predecessor. Its chin was prominent, and contributed 

 a greater proportion to the entire depth of the bone in front 

 than the alveolar portion. Its ramus might not be thicker 

 and stouter than the ramus of the other variety with which 

 it is compared, but as the eye follows the lower line of two such 

 lower jaws along to their angle the superior strength of the later 

 type is made manifest, not merely by the muscular markings and 

 eversion of the angle, but by the much greater width of the entire 

 bone at this point. 



We may now pass "from the brachy cephalic British skull of the 

 bronze period, leaving some of its minor characteristics to be 

 gathered in the way of contrast from the ensuing general descrip- 

 tion of the dolichocephalic variety, and summing up the general 

 impression which an inspection of a series of such skulls makes 

 upon an observer by saying that it suggests the application of such 

 epithets as 'well-filled/ ' eurycephalic,' f sub -cubical \ 3 or when the 

 rounding-off effect of senile change has begun to tell, ' subsphe- 





