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Anglo-Saxon contingent whicli possessed itself of Frilford. I may 

 remark that the two types are recognisable in specimens of both 

 sexes, and a very fairly perfect female cranium from a grave in which 

 a pair of fibulae and a number of beads were found, as it shows at 

 once, and distinguishably, the tribal and the sexual characters, 

 which have very often been confounded, and as from the surround- 

 ings with which it was found there is no doubt as to its value as a 

 standard of reference. This skull appears to have belonged to the 

 shorter and broader type of Anglo-Saxon crania, which was, I am 

 inclined to think, the less cultivated of the two types. A second 

 Anglo-Saxon female cranium found here belongs to the same type. 

 A single female and a single male cranium of a more elongated 

 form were also found with Anglo-Saxon insignia. The female 

 skeleton, it may be remarked, belonged to an old person, and in 

 this point, as also in the possession of cruciform fibulae, instead of 

 circular ones, this skeleton differed from the two others with which 

 we have compared it. It was chiefly from a comparison of the 

 female Anglo-Saxon skull, with the first cranium described by me 

 as ' cranium (male) marked A ' for Mr. Akerman in his ' Report of 

 the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries,' May 25, 1865, 

 that I came to see that my assignment of this latter to the male 

 sex had been in all probability erroneous. This cranium was re- 

 ported as having been found with a fibula two feet above it, and 

 though this by no means proves it to be an Anglo-Saxon skull 

 from the archaeological point of view, the very close anatomical 

 approximation of this skull to the indubitably Anglo-Saxon skull 

 does, when coupled with this fact, lend some considerable probability 

 to such a conclusion. In justice to myself, I may be permitted to 

 say that the cranium and lower jaw were the only bony relics upon 

 which I had to form my judgment as to sex, and that in my report 

 I did draw attention to the small development of size and strength 

 which they seemed to show that their owner must have possessed. 

 And the authority of anatomists of no less repute than His and 



type have been found in the Frilford cemetery subsequently to the writing of this 

 paper, viz. March 22, 1869 (Nos. iv and v). Both had belonged to young men. In 

 both the body had been buried with the head raised ; and in one the grave, though 

 semioriented, was only 18 inches deep, and the arm lay across the body, and not by 

 the side, as in the burials of Latinised populations (see Cochet, • Normand. Souterr.' 

 p. 193). There were no relics, and we have not therefore more than probable 

 evidence for their nationality. 



