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pre-Saxon crania (No. ii. Sept. 1867, and No. iv. Jan. 1868), the 

 frontal and parietal tuberosities are nearly or quite obsolete, and 

 the calvaria, elongating as if in compensation, becomes somewhat 

 cylindroidal in its antero-posterior outline. 



Only one male cranium has been found by me at Frilford, which 

 I should class with the River-bed male skull from Muskham, and 

 the Towyn-y-Capel skulls so intelligibly described by Professor 

 Huxley in the 'Prehistoric Remains of Caithness,' p. 120, and fre- 

 quently examined by myself in the museum of the College of 

 Surgeons. This cranium belonged to a strong man of six feet, 

 beyond the middle period of life, who seems, from the direction of 

 his grave, and the copper staining upon his somewhat prognathic 

 jaws and collar-bone, to have been acknowledged as a Romano- 

 Briton, and to have been buried just as individuals whose osteo- 

 logieal remains speak with some authority to their greater culture. 

 By the possession of a slightly greater breadth, and consequently 

 a much higher cephalic index, 78 as against 76 of the typical male 

 River-bed skull just specified, this skull shows a tendency towards 

 assuming the outlines of the smaller representatives of the globose 

 Romano-British type. The fact that but one male against nine 

 female skulls of the River-bed type has been found at Frilford 

 amidst so many other types of head and so many marks of civilisa- 

 tion, is suggestive of the explanation which their having belonged to 

 a slave population would more or less satisfactorily give. The River- 

 bed skulls from the barrow at Crawley which have come into my 

 hands are also all female, as I think, but this barrow has by no 

 means been exhaustively explored. And I incline, though doubt- 

 fully, not having had the pelvis nor the long bones to aid me in 

 forming my judgment, to refer the Towyn-y-Capel skulls in the 

 College of Surgeons to the same sex as all the similarly- constructed 

 crania, except the one just mentioned, found at Frilford. In the 

 large male skulls, of which I have spoken, Professors Riitimeyer 

 and His would, I think, recognise their ' Sion typus ;' and assuredly 

 they merit the titles Krdftigkeit and Wurde, which Riitimeyer ^ be- 

 stows upon them. It may be right to hold that these crania belonged 

 to men British in blood, though here at least Roman by citizenship ; 

 but, if we assign them to the Roman immigrants, we shall have an 

 explanation of the enlargement of the River-bed type of skull sug- 

 ^ * Jahrbuch der Schweizer Alpen' for 1864, p. 398. 



