40.2 ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BARROW PERIOD. 



The femur is flattened in region of glut, max., and gives a 

 stature of 5 ft. 6 in. The tibia is flattened; but did these bones 

 belong to the skull ? 



Ceph. index (approx.) . . 75 

 Femur . . . . . i8«2 

 Tibia 135 



Ext. length . . . .7-1 

 Ext. breadth . . . .5-3 

 Vert, height . . .' .5-5 



Viewed from above, this skull has an evenly ovate contour, taper- 

 ing only very gradually either backwards or forwards. The point 

 of maximum width is in the meridian of the mastoids, which are 

 large for a female skull. The forehead is vertical up to the level of 

 the tubera, and the parieto-occipital region is also a little more 

 vertical than is usual in skulls of this elongated type. The parietal 

 tubera are less well marked than is usual in female skulls. The 

 supraciliary ridges, however, are characteristically female, as are 

 also the low height index and the lower jaw, the teeth in which 

 are very much worn, and, though an alveolar abscess was developed 

 under the anterior molar, had not been diminished in number by 

 more than one or two during a very long life. 



Note by Canon Greenwell. — ' Just north of 7 and 8, a body, 9, 

 on left side, head to south, apparently in position ; hips are 7 inches 

 higher than the head. Just north of hips of 9, a skull, 10, close to 

 surface and much disturbed, No. 9 being the highest body, as regards 

 the hips. The fact of its being undisturbed shows that any dislo- 

 cation or breakage is not due to modern agencies.' 



Swell vii. — The third long barrow examined at Netherswell in 

 Sept. 1874, is situated on a hill to the N.W. of Netherswell Church, 

 in the district known as Upper Swell, upon the estate of Alfred 

 Sartoris, Esq., by whose kindness Canon Greenwell was allowed to 

 explore it. It is the largest of the three barrows examined here, 

 and resembles the second very closely in its contour, and both that 

 and the first in the materials — oolitic flags and rubble — of which it 

 is made up. Its extreme length is 173 feet. Its length from its 

 westward end to the central concavity of its horns 156 feet ; its 

 extreme width, which lay about 20 feet west of the apices of the 

 horns, is ^ feet; its least width, which is, as usual, at the west 

 end, is 32 feet. The height of the mound is from 6 to 8J feet 

 above the natural surface ; it is surrounded by a wall, which was 5 

 feet high at the east end, where it defined the outlines of the horns, 

 and about 4 feet high round the sides and west end, being in thick- 



