314 Mortimer: Notes on our Ancestors in East Yorkshire. 
stature of 63.2 inches. The extreme breadth indices of the 
adult skulls of the Early Iron Age in this neighbourhood are 
68 and 81.5, and the stature ranged from 54.4 inches to 67.2 
inches. The average height of the three types of persons is. 
61.5 inches only. 
Relating to Romano-British times the human remains I 
possess are fewer and less certain in racial character than those 
from the two preceding periods. Nevertheless, the few crania 
obtained from the graveyard at Blealand’s Nook, near Fimber 
Station, at the crossing of the two Roman roads, are mainly 
long in form. They were associated with much broken pot- 
tery, and may be safely assigned to this period. These crania 
and the measurements of the long bones much resemble those 
of the Early Iron Age and probably are mainly descendants 
from that period. 
Still later, our Anglo-Saxon ancestors are in strong evidence. 
Their remains are unquestionable, and more numerous in the 
East Riding than are those of the Romano-British period. 
They usually occur at cemeteries, and at times a British 
barrow or entrenchment has been utilised for the purpose. 
The skeletons are often accompanied by easily distinguishable: 
Anglo-Saxon relics. I have the measurements of the bones 
of 61 bodies, of which 31 (50.5 per cent.) had long heads with 
an average breadth index of 72.3, and a computed stature of 
65.7 inches, 7 (11.4 per cent.) possess short heads with a medium 
breadth index of 81.1 and a computed stature of 64 inches ; 
while 23 (37.7 per cent.) had intermediate heads with an average 
breadth index of 77 and possessed an average computed stature: 
of 63.6 inches. In the whole 61 skulls the breadth index 
varies from 70 to 83.3, and the stature from 58 inches to 78 
inches, and both these extremes are associated with long heads. 
The average stature of the 61 males and females indis- 
criminately is 64.4 inches. This series of Anglo-Saxon skulls 
somewhat resembles that of the Early Iron Age (though possess- 
ing a greater cubic capacity), being more uniform in type than 
the skulls from the Neolithic and Bronze periods. The average 
stature, however, is greater than that of the Early Iron Age 
by the startling difference of 3.4 inches, and closely approxi-- 
mates the stature of the men of the Stone and Bronze periods. 
It is very interesting to find from the measurements I have 
obtained from the barrows of the combined Stone and Bronze 
periods (we cannot in East Yorkshire safely separate the two), 
that the people are more mixed in cranial features than are 
those of the three later periods, and, judging from their bones,. 
they were a little taller and physically stronger. This indicates 
that even at this early period the inhabitants of this part of 
Yorkshire were a mixed community, of fine physique, and as 
diverse in type of head and of stature as are the people of to-day. 
Naturalist, 
