436 NOTES ON SKELETON FOUND AT CISSBURY. 



An abnormal depression, y^-inch long, of the shape of a segment 

 of the lateral sinus in the cranium, exists immediately internally to 

 the rough oblique line corresponding with part of the upper and 

 outer limit of the origin of the soleus for the posterior surface of 

 the fibula of the left side. This may possibly have been produced 

 by the malnutrition caused by the temporary hemiplegia. But no 

 other lesions of this kind, if such it be, have presented themselves 

 to me elsewhere in this skeleton. 



The cranium of the male skeleton contrasts with the female, 

 already described, page 425, in the following particulars : — 



When placed on a horizontal plane, and viewed in the norma 

 lateralis \ without the lower jaw, the skull rests on the occipital 

 condyles and the first molar and the teeth anterior to it, whilst the 

 female skull, when similarly placed, rests on the conceptacula cere- 

 belli and the first and second molars, showing thus at once a 

 greater cranial curvature, which is a sign of elevation, and a greater 

 convexity downwards of the upper alveolar line, which is rather a 

 sign of the reverse. The male skull is more orthognathous than 

 the female, whilst the slope of the forehead is more oblique, as is 

 usual in male skulls. The same applies to the obliquity in the 

 parieto-occipital region. The frontal and parietal regions are, as 

 the measurements of their absolute widths show, less well filled out 

 and globose than those of the female skeleton; the muscular im- 

 pressions show the large development to be expected in a male 

 subject. The ear is seen, as the low antero-posterior index (-48) 

 indicates, to be placed far forward in the skull. The origin of the 

 temporal muscle from the frontal and of the masseter from the 

 malar bone are marked by rugged lines ; there is a large foramen 

 emissarium in each temporal bone posteriorly to the digastric fossa, 

 in compensation, as it were, for the existence of but a single small 

 one in the place of the normally present pair in the parietal region. 

 Viewed from behind, the parietal tubera are so faintly marked as 

 to mask somewhat the pentagonal contour which the falling away 

 of the parietals from the middle line of the skull on either side, 

 together with the comparative flatness of the temporal regions, 

 would otherwise give. Viewed in the norma verticalis, the skull is 

 seen to be phaenozygous ; to have the denticulations of the sagittal 

 suture somewhat coarse where present, and to have the fused halves 

 of the frontals sloping away from the middle line. When the 



