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the latter remarks: ‘‘ The fragments are interesting, as proving that 
the characters observed in the more perfect crania were common to 
‘the individuals interred in this tumulus. Three or four calvaria are 
sufficiently complete to show that in them likewise the length of the 
skulls had been great in proportion to the breadth.”* Again in 
the megalithic tumulus of Littleton Drew, North Wilts, at least 
twenty-six skeletons appear to have been found, from several of 
whick imperfect crania were recovered, and of those Dr. Thurnam 
remarks: ‘‘ Hight or nine crania were sufficiently perfect for compar- 
ison. With one exception, in which a lengthened oval form is not 
marked, they are of the dolichocephalic class.”+ So also the four 
nearly perfect skulls from West Kennet are described as ‘‘ more or 
less of the lengthened oval form, with the occiput expanded and 
projecting, and presenting a strong contrast to skulls from the cireular 
barrows of Wilts and Dorset.”{ To these may be added those of 
Stoney Littleton, Somersetshire, first pointed out by Sir R. C. 
Hoare ; || and examples from barrows in Derby, Stafford, and York- 
shire, described by Mr. Thomas Bateman in his “Ten Years’ Dig- 
gings in Celtic and Saxon Grave Hills;” including those from 
Bolehill, Longlow, and Ringham Low, Derbyshire ; from the galleries 
of the tumulus on Five Wells Hill; and from the Yorkshire barrow 
near Heslerton-on-the-Wolds. Several of the above contained a 
number of skulls ; and of the last, in which fifteen human skeletons 
lay heaped together, Mr. Bateman remarks: “ The crania that have 
been preserved are all more or less mutilated ; but about six remain 
sufficiently entire to indicate the prevailing conformation to be of the 
long or kumbecephalic type of Dr. Wilson.”§ The crania occuring 
in graves of this class mentioned by Mr. Bateman alone, exceed 
fifty in number, of which the majority are either of the elongated 
type, or too imperfect to be determined. The others include between 
thirty and forty well-determined examples, besides a greater number 
in too imperfect a state to supply more than indications of their 
correspondence to the same characteristic form. Alongside of some 
of these are also found brachycephalic crania; but in the most ancient 
barrows the elongated skull appearsto be the predominant, and in some 
eases the sole type; and of the examples found in Scotland, several 
* Archeol. Journal, vol. xi. p-813. Crania Britannica, Dec. I. pl. 5, (5). 
| Crania Britannica, Dee. III. pl. 24, (3). 
} bid, Dec. V. pl. 50 (4.) 
l) Archeologia, vol. xix. p. 47. 
§ Ten Fears’ Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave Hills. p. 280. 
