ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BARROW PERIOD. 407 



as to the dentition of the dolichocephali from the Yorkshire 

 Wolds. 



There were two humeri from this barrow, both evidently female, 

 and possibly from the same individual, with olecranic perforations. 

 Of the opposite condition of hyperostosis we have an example in the 

 supraciliary ridges of one fragmentary and one nearly perfect frontal 

 bone, the ridges not being underlaid by sinuses, but made up of can- 

 cellous bone. There were found here also one specimen of an ossified 

 thyroid cartilage, and one of anchylosis of the dorsal vertebrae. 



Many of the bones are encrusted with stalagmite ; and a con- 

 siderable number, both of the human bones and of the bones of 

 sheep, ox, and pig which were found in the chamber, were dis- 

 coloured by the manganic oxide, a circumstance which renders 

 probable at once the contemporaneity and the antiquity of both. 



Description of shall belonging to male skeleton found in passage 

 leading into chamber. — Swell vii. — The bones of this skeleton show 

 their owner to have been a man of about thirty years of age, traces 

 of the suture between the first and second sacral vertebrae being still 

 to be recognised in the middle line ; to have been of average mus- 

 cular strength, and of a stature of about 5 feet 5 inches. With his 

 bones came also the jaw of a young pig, just as was the case with 

 the bones from the chamber in Swell i. ; as also some bones of a 

 sheep or goat. 



Cranial Measurements. 



Ext. length 



Ext. breadth 



Vert, height 



Least frontal width . 



Frontal arc 



Parietal arc 



Occipital arc 



Circumference (approx.) 



Glabello-inial length . 



Height of orbit 



7-4 

 5-6 

 5-65 

 3-8 



5-2 

 4-8 



47 

 21 



7-3 

 i-35 



Cephalic index . * . . -76 

 Antero-posterior index . 94 : 189 

 Distance from auditory foramen 



to fronto-nasal suture . .4*3 

 Distance from auditory foramen 



to nasal spine . ■ . .4-2 

 Distance from auditory foramen 



to alveolar edge . . • 4*4 



Width • 1-6 



Interangular diameter of lower jaw . . • • • 4 1 



Depth of symphysis *'4 



Width of ramus f <4 



This skull has the typical dolichocephalic contour when viewed 

 the norma lateralis, though by mere measurement it is less doli- 

 chocephalic than skulls from similar barrows usually are. The highest 

 point in its evenly curving antero-posterior arc is at the coronal 

 suture. Its most striking characteristic is the prominence of its 



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