180 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915. 



The calvaria of the skull was repaired as far as possible and has 

 been examined by the kindness of Professor W. Wright, F.S.A., who 

 reports as follows : ' The cranium was evidently of oval shape and of 

 considerable but not extreme length. The frontal bone was in two 

 pieces owing to the persistence of the metopic suture. The other 

 sutures of the calvaria were only beginning to be obliterated.^ The 

 skull bones are remarkable for their thickness. It is interesting to 

 note in the fragment of the occipital region the thick character ceases 

 at the superior curved line. From a small piece of the frontal bone 

 one gathers that the supraciliary eminence was not well marked._ The 

 mastoid processes are small. The remains also includes a portioii of 

 the right side of the body of the mandible. The lateral incisor, canine, 

 and ffrst and second bicuspid teeth are all considerably worn, particu- 

 larly the first two and the second bicuspid. The first molar must have 

 been lost during life as its socket is entirely closed. The skull belonged 

 to an individual probably over thirty years of age and of the female 

 sex.' 



Three human mandibles were found near the skeleton and at a 

 slightly greater depth, and another in the N.W. part of the cutting. 

 Between these remains and the human skeleton (No. 214) the chin 

 regions of the mandibles permit of comparison. Professor "Wright 

 reports that ' they suggest a close relationship between the individuals, 

 for they bear a close resemblance to each other. The chins, moreover, 

 are strong and firm. The shape of the cranium (No. 214) in bein? long 

 is in order, but it was probably not as long as the very long ones found 

 in the chambered long-barrows.' 



It will be convenient to give the details of the mandibles here : 



191. Symphysial part of the mandible of a man (height at symphysis 

 30 mm.); no teeth remaining; in a weathered condition. 'Its chief feature is 

 the breadth and strength of the chin ' (W. Wright). 



Found in the lower part of the mixed silting (loamy chalk silt) and above 

 the chalk-rubble in the N.W. part of the cutting. 



212. The left half and the region of the angle of the right half of the 

 mandible of a man ; somewhat weathered, like the other fragments of lower 

 jaws, Nos. 191 . 217, and 222, as if they had been exposed upon the surface at 

 some time. ' There is nothing noteworthy about this mandible unless it be that 

 the aee of the individual was probably from thirty-five to forty-five years of 

 age ' (W. Wright). 



Found in the mixed silting near the human skeleton (No. 214), at a depth 

 of 6"2 ft. below the surface of the silting. 



(Part of a lower jaw, No. SO. was found at a depth of 8-3 ft. in the chalk- 

 rubble in Cutting I., Fosse, 1908.) 



217. Part of a small mandible consisting of the chin and part of the riaht 

 side, with the sockets of the bicuspid teeth remaining; weathered. ' It nrobably 

 belonged to a female, and the chin, making allowances for the sexual differences, 

 has the same conformations as that of specimens Nos. 191 and 214 ' (W. 

 Wright). 



Found near No. 212, in the mixed silting, at a depth of 68 ft. below the 

 surface of the silting. 



222. Part of the right side of the body of a mandible, the ascending ramus 

 missing ; of the teeth only the first and third molars remain. ' The last molar 

 is onlv slightly, if at all, worn, and therefore probably the specimen came from 

 an individual whose age was something in the early twenties' (W Wright). 



Found in the mixed silting near the skeleton (No. 214), at a depth of 6'3 ft. 

 below tTie surface of the silting. 



