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had belonged to a person below the age of puberty, this one 

 having belonged to a boy or girl of eleven to twelve years of age; 

 six had belonged to persons past the middle period of life, one to a 

 young man with the wisdom tooth just coming into use, a ninth 

 to a man in whom that tooth had come into use, but had had only 

 little wear, and a tenth to a woman in the same condition of 

 dentition. Three of the ten appear to have been women, two of 

 whom were aged, and one probably about thirty years of age ; four 

 appear to have been strong men, past middle life, but the sex in 

 one case is doubtful ; one of them had been a strong man of about 

 thirty. The lower jaw of the sixth male subject, in which the 

 wisdom teeth are just rising into use, does not enable one to 

 predicate much as to his strength beyond what is implied in assign- 

 ing it to the male sex. All the lower jaws except three lie evenly 

 from angle to mentum, when laid on a horizontal surface ; only one 

 has the foramen mental e further back than it is found to be in 

 modern European specimens. The alveolar portion of the mental 

 region has not the same relative development as is observable in 

 several of the lower jaws from the other long barrows of this dis- 

 trict ; and this and some other osteological considerations, approxi- 

 mating these skeletons to later, rather than earlier, Celtic types, 

 when coupled with the fact that these bones are much less stained 

 with manganese, and that the grave containing them was most 

 probably not connected by a gallery or passage with the exterior, 

 as is usual in long barrows, incline me to think that this collection 

 of bones may be of less antiquity than the others. In none of these 

 lower jaws had any teeth been lost before death ; in only one is 

 there any caries visible, and in one other there is a cavity formed 

 by an alveolar abscess in connexion with a lower front molar worn 

 down to the fangs, and with its pulp-cavities almost entirely ob- 

 literated by osteo-dentine. 



A considerable number of anteriorly platycnemic tibiae have been 

 removed from this cist; one femur, length 18-3 inches, giving a 

 stature of 5 feet 6 inches, came with such a tibia, length 13-3 

 inches. It is somewhat flattened superiorly, but is not carinate, 

 though in all probability it belonged to a male subject. One tibia, 

 not platycnemic, has been recovered from this cist ; its length is 

 13-1 inches, giving a stature of 4 feet 9 inches. Three humeri, 

 probably of females, with olecranic perforations, have been re- 



