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Mr Horton- Smith, A description of the [Mar. 9, 



belong, not to the Romans, but to the Anglo-Saxon race. This 

 fixes the earliest possible date of the cemetery at about 410 A.D., 

 the year in which the Roman legion were recalled from Britain. 

 The latest date possible is not so easy to determine, but inasmuch 

 as no Christian emblems or relics of any description exist in these 

 graves, we shall not in all probability be wrong in assuming that 

 the Anglo-Saxons buried here had not been converted to Chris- 

 tianity. Their conversion took place about 650 a.d. ; and hence 

 the date of this cemetery maybe said to lie between the years 410 

 and 650 a.d. 



The importance of these skulls lies in the fact that they help 

 us to draw the boundary line between the East Anglians and East 

 Saxons, for we can see by a study of them whether Girton was in 

 the East Anglian or East Saxon territory. As far as one can 

 judge from such a limited number of crania as eight — for these 

 are all that have reached us — I think Girton must be considered 

 as an East Anglian possession. 



In a paper to be published shortly in the Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute I have given what I consider to be 

 the typical indices of both the East Anglian and Saxon skulls. 



As the paper has not been published yet, I may perhaps be 

 allowed to reproduce them here. By " East Anglian " skulls, I 

 mean skulls which were found, some at Hauxton, some in Cam- 

 bridge itself. 



* Mean of Male Indices only. 



By glancing at the comparative table given above, it will 

 be seen that the East Anglian skull differs from the Saxon in 

 being broader, rather more lofty, and of greater capacity. Its 

 orbital index is higher and, above all, the face of the East Anglians 

 is distinctly longer than that of the Saxons. 



