388 ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BARROW PERIOD. 



Swell i. (d). — Part of frontal, and right molar and maxillaries 

 of a strong young man, aet. twenty to twenty-four. The frontal 

 appears to have been vertical up to the tubera, which are low 

 down, and then to have sloped very gradually to the coronal suture. 

 The temporal ridges are greatly developed. 



Orbit width . . . .1.65 

 Orbit height . . . .1*3 



The wisdom teeth are in place, but have been very little used. 

 The supraciliary ridges are large, but are not underlaid by 

 sinuses. 



Swell i, 22-9-1874. — Imperfect calvaria of old woman, 4 feet 

 10 inches in stature, dolichocephalic both by contour and by 

 measurement. It contrasts very markedly, as regards size, with 

 the other female skull procured from this barrow, into the inside of 

 which it could be put, though its owner was an inch taller 

 (4 feet 10 inches as against 4 feet 9 inches) than the owner of skull 

 in Swell i. (a). This skull might be taken as a fair specimen of 

 the River Bed type of Professor Huxley, the larger as a fair 

 specimen of the Sion type of His and Riitimeyer. 



Ext. length 

 Ext. breadth (approx 

 Vert, height 

 Frontal arc 

 Parietal . 



7-i 



5-o 



5-3 

 4.9 



5-4 



Occipital 4« 2 



Cephalic index .... 70 



Femur 16 



Ulna 9-2 



Stature . . . 4 ft. 10 in. 



The forehead is vertical ; the highest point in the vertical contour 

 lies about an inch posteriorly to the coronal suture ; the posterior 

 half of the parietal curves evenly into the slopes of the superior 

 occipital squama. The cerebellum was much overlapped by the 

 posterior cerebral lobes. The lower jaw is feeble. The mental 

 foramen corresponds to the interval between the second bicuspid 

 and first molar. The teeth are very much worn down, and there 

 are two or three alveolar abscess-cavities in the jaw. One very 

 large one occupies a great part of the molar region of the left 

 upper maxilla. 



Many of the vertebrae, from the cervical downwards, are beset 

 with exostoses, but they are not anchylosed. The tibiae were not 

 sufficiently well preserved for me to decide whether they were 

 platycnemic, as were all the other four adult tibiae. The femui 

 is very much flattened in the region of the insertion of the glutaeu* 



