CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 623 



first place, I have not in my excavations at Frilford met with any 

 representatives of the brachy cephalic type of ancient Britons so 

 well described by Dr. Thurnam ^, and called ' Belgic ' by Professor 

 Huxley. This is especially noteworthy, as typical examples of this 

 form of cranium have been, through the kindness of the Duke of 

 Marlborough, procured by me for the University Museum from the 

 long barrow at Crawley, described by Mr. Akerman, in the 

 « Archaeologia/ xxxvii. 43a, and supposed by him to belong to the 

 same period in time, as it does to much the same district in space, 

 as the Frilford cemetery. Secondly, the longer, narrower, and 

 more vaulted skulls, supposed to have distinguished a race which 

 in England at least took the priority in point of time of the brachy- 

 cephalic and taller race just mentioned, are, in what I should con- 

 sider their most typical form, all but equally absent here. That 

 most typical form I should consider as identical with the form 

 regarded as ' Belgic ' by Retzius ^, and spoken of by him as ' a 

 Celtic but not the common Celtic form ; ' and the form called 

 * Cumbecephalic ' by Professor Daniel Wilson ^ I should regard as 

 being but a slight modification of it. And the three skulls which 

 I have classed in my Tabular view of results of Osteological In- 

 vestigations (infra) as belonging to the ' Hohberg ' typus of His 

 and Biitimeyer, may be looked upon as embodying the results of 

 the working upon that form of the Roman civilisation with which 

 their owners were in contact. Those results are expressed by a 

 decrease in the angularity of the external outlines, and an increase 

 in the cubic capacity indicated in a few cases very strikingly by an 

 open frontal suture ; see p. 619, supra. Thirdly, a very large 

 majority, viz. thirty-two out of the fifty-three, adult Romano- 

 British interments investigated by me belong to a type which has 

 frequently been confounded, since the time of Retzius' writings, 

 with the dolichocephalic types just spoken of, but which that ex- 

 cellent ethnographer distinguished from it as ' Cimbric,' a variety 

 of 'the common Celtic' type. Comparing this form of cranium, 

 which I may add is by no means extinct amongst ourselves at the 



^ 'On Two principal Forms of Ancient British and Gaulish Skulls,' pp. 31, loi. 

 Skulls of this form are considered by Sir Thomas Wilde to have belonged in Ireland 

 to fair-headed, light-coloured, blue, or grey-eyed Celtae, or Tuatha De Danaan. See 

 'Beauties of the Boyne,' 2nd ed. 1850, pp. 221, 237, 239, and the figure at p. 232. 



^ See ' Ethnologische Schriften,' pp. 107, 108. 



• •Prehistoric Annals of Scotland/ chap. ix. 1851. 



