DISTORTIONS OF THE HUMAN CRANIUM. 423 



adult male skull found in the centre of the Longlow cist has been 

 selected to appear in the Crania Brifannica, as a typical example of 

 this form. The crania of a female, and of a girl about seven years 

 old, from the same cist, exhibit the same form in a remarkable degree, 

 as do the others which are more imperfect. Crania from the cham- 

 bered barrows at Bole Hill, Bakewell Moore ; Stoney Low, Bassing- 

 ton Moor ; Eingham Low, near Monyash ; Five Wells Hill, Tadd- 

 ington, are of the same type."* 



The skull above referred to, selected from those recovered from the 

 Long Low chambered barrow, has since been produced in the fourth 

 Decade of the Crania Britannica, and in the beautiful illustrations 

 of its form, amply bears out Mr. Bateman's remarks. Mr. J. Bar- 

 nard Davis, by whom it is described, repeatedly expresses his dissent 

 from the pre- Celtic hypothesis ; and apparently maintains the idea 

 of extreme latitudes in the variation of form from a common type. 

 He specially notes the fact that examples of brachycephalic crania 

 have been found in chambered barrows ; and thus seeks to solve the 

 difficulties presented by the evidence furnished from that of Long 

 Low : " The most marked similarity, however, exists between the 

 man's skull and that of the girl from Long Lowe. It is a very pro- 

 bable explanation, that the three skulls belonged to one family, and 

 are the remains of a father, mother, and their child. This would re- 

 duce the unusual lougness and narrowness to a mere family peculiarity. 

 In this case it may be nothing more."t The word family, it is ob- 

 vious, is used here in a singularly loose sense, including as it does 

 husband and wife ; a relationship involving no necessary uniformity 

 in the shape of the heads. But while Mr. Davis abandoned the title 

 of Crania Celtica, originally proposed by him for the great national 

 work now far advanced towards completion, he has not found it so easy 

 to divest himself of the ideas in which it originated. Beginning his 

 chapter on the "Views of preceding Observers," with Julius Csesar, and 

 rejecting with little ceremony those of writers who are slow to believe 

 that the oldest historic race is necessarily the primeval one, he thus 

 closes that department of his subject : — " We have now quoted at 

 sufficient length descriptions and opinions bearing moi-e or less upon 

 the people who first inhabited the forests and wilds of these Islands, 

 after they had been rendered fit, in the sublime plans of the Divine 



• Ten Years' Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave Hills, p. 146. 

 t Crania Britannica, Dec. IV., pi. 33 (5). 



