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ments only partially illustrate certain elements of cranial classification, 

 very obvious to the eye. 



TABLE I.-CRANIA PROM BRITISH MEGALITHIC TOMBS. 



But in those, as in other examples previously referred to, the 

 actual measurements of perfect crania, only illustrate and confirm 

 evidence of an equally suggestive, though less definite character. 

 Only two crania from the remarkable chambered turnulus of Uley, 

 in Gloucestershire, 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 the latter remarks : 

 "The fragments are interesting, as proving that the characters ob- 

 served in the more perfect crania were common to the individuals 

 interred in this tumulus. Three or four calvaria are sufficiently com' 

 plete 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 which imperfect crania were 

 recovered, in addition to the one measured above, (No. 5,) and of those 

 Dr. Thurnam remarks : " Eight or nine crania were sufficiently perfect 

 for comparison. 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 

 circular barrows of Wilts and Dorset." To these may be added those 

 of Heslerton-on-the- Wolds, described by Mr. Bateman ; and of 

 Stoney Littleton, Somersetshire, first pointed out by Sir R. C. Hoare. 

 Thus we have between thirty and forty skulls, all found under nearly 



