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^belonged in all but one instance to men of a stature little, or not at 

 Hkll, short of six feet, and this large stature must not be forgotten 

 ^^v^hen we admire the large size of their brain-case. Only one female 

 skull which at all approximates in size to these larger crania has 

 come into my hands at Frilford; and this skull belonged to a 

 woman of little, if at all, more than 5 ft. i in. in height. But 

 I incline to think that the female crania, seven in number, which 

 I have spoken of as ' the River-bed type modified by increase of 

 size,' and which constitute in the tabular view to which I allude 

 a third variety of the E/omano-British series, with an average 

 stature of four feet nine inches and a-half, are to be considered as 

 the female representatives of the ' globose Romano-British type.' 

 For, strikingly similar as the contour of these skulls is to that 

 assigned by Professor Huxley^ to his 'River-bed skulls/ their 

 capacity exceeds that of those crania, and their measurements come 

 to correspond very closely with those of the smaller male skulls 

 belonging to individuals of smaller stature of the globose Romano- 

 British type, whilst in their solid texture they resemble the larger 

 skulls of that division. 



Facsimiles of these female crania have been procured from many 

 excavations in this country. I have found them in the 'Long 

 Barrow ' at Crawley, which has been already spoken of as contain- 

 ing skeletons with crania of the brachycephalic British type, and 

 which, it should be added, has furnished us with evidence as to 

 female skulls corresponding to the large brachycephalic male skulls, 

 and dijffering, therefore, considerably from every variety of the 

 River-bed type. A skull very closely similar to this Frilford 

 variety of pre-Saxon times may be seen in the museum of the 

 London College of Surgeons, under the number '571^ R' in the 

 Catalogue, and with the title * Peat skull.' And, lastly, a modern 

 female skull obtained for me by Dyce Duckworth, Esq., M.D., from 

 the Hinter-Rhein-Thal, near the Spliigen Pass, the country of the 

 * Disentis ' type of the Swiss anatomists, would have shown me, had 

 other evidence been wanting, that this form of cranium has per- 

 sisted into, and is abundant in, our own day. 



A modification of the River-bed type is presented to us in 

 certain small crania to which I have applied the term *cylindro- 

 cephalic' In this form represented by two female and undoubtedly 

 ^ See •Prehistoric Remains of Caithness,' p. 120. 



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