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lie. There it is not improbable that both Phcenicians and early 
Greek navigators have left behind them evidences of their presence, 
such as he alone can discriminate.* 
Before, however, we can abandon ourselves to the temptations of 
so seductive a theory,—which, after all, finds only such support 
as may be deduced from a certain general analogy of cranial 
form; and derives no confirmation from the works of art accom- 
panying the remains of the long-headed barrow builders ;—it has to 
be borne in remembrance that the question is still disputed with 
reference to this class of British dolichocephalic crania: are they 
examples of an essentially distinct type, preserving evidence of the 
characteristics of a different race, or are they mere exceptional 
aberrant deviations from the supposed brachycephalic Celtic, or 
British type? Much stress is laid on the fact that the two forms of 
skull have occasionally been recovered from the same barrow; from 
which it may be inferred that the two races to which I con- 
ceive them to have belongec, were for a more or less limited 
period contemporaneous. More than this I cannot regard as a 
legitimate induction from such premises, in relation to crania of 
such extremely diverse types. But this amounts to little; for 
the same is undoubtedly true of the ancient British and the modern 
Anglo Saxon race ; and the discovery of Celtic and Saxon skulls in a 
common barrow or tumulus of the 6th century is no proof that the 
latter race was not preceded by many centuries in the occupation of 
the country, by the Britons, among whom they then mingled as 
conquerors and supplanters. 
But the elongated skulls of the Uley barrow type are no rare 
and exceptional forms. They have been most frequently found in 
tombs of a peculiar character, and of great antiquity. Many have 
been recovered in too imperfect a state to admit of more being 
deduced from the fragments than that these conform to the more 
perfect examples of this peculiar form. Nevertheless the number 
already obtained in a sufficiently perfect state to admit of detailed 
measurement is remarkable, when their great age, and the circum- 
stances of their recovery are fully considered. Of this the following 
enumeration will afford satisfactory proof. Only two perfect crania 
from the chambered tumulus of Uley, in Gloucestershire,—of which 
the proportions of one are cited above,—have been preserved. But 
in the later search of Mr. Freeman, and Dr. Thurnam, in 1854, the 
fragments of eight or nine other skulls were recovered, and of these 
* Canadian Journal, yol. ii. p. 445. 
