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perhaps raised a little in index by a broad-headed cross. The 

 vertical aspect shews the varieties of form usually found in long- 

 headed folk, in some cases an elli]3tic, often an oval, sometimes a 

 coffin-shaped or hexagonal outline. The pi'ofile, or lateral 

 aspect is perhaps more often low, but sometimes very well 

 developed, the brows often rather prominent, the parieto-oceipital 

 or lambda region flattish, and the anterior sagittal region elevated 

 or slightly acuminate. The occipital aspect is more often rounded 

 than pentagonal or carinate. Some of the crania, rounded and 

 with prominent brows, seem to approach the Sion type of His and 

 Rutimeyer. The parietal bosses are not generally much marked. 

 Absatzung (capsulation of occiput) occurs ; so does pheenozygy ; 

 but in rare instances have zygomata been preserved. Nor, 

 imfortunately, in most cases have the orbits survived ; . but 

 I think the square form of .orbit prevailed, though sometimes 

 meo-aseme. Nor is there much evidence as to the form of nose ; 

 only we see that it was, sonietimes at least, aquiline or high- 

 bridged, and leptorrhine (very narrow). Of few and fragmentary 

 maxillee, two exhibit very marked prognathousness, which is a 

 very rare feature in the neolithic race : one of these two belonged 

 to a female, the other probably to a young dolichoid male subject. 

 If it be a race feature, it may have been derived from the 

 broad-headed bronze race, in which it is not so uncommon, or 

 possibly from even later colonists, of whom more than one wave 

 or swarm had doubtless arrived and spread themselves in South 

 •Britain between the bronze conc[uest and the period of our 

 interments. 



One must say a few words on the one measurable brachy- 

 kephal, which is in Plymouth museum, and is of great interest. 

 It is a male skull of fair capacity (1473 by estimate), and of a 

 cuboid or trapezoid form, in the vertical aspect sphenobeloid, as 

 I suppose Sergi would call it, having the maximum breadth 

 placed far back, but in the lateral and posterior aspects 

 platykephalic (flattened), and with a very flat though slightly 

 capsulated occiput. The orbits are megaseme ; and it is 

 leptorrhine or mesorrhine. It is extremely unlike to all its 

 quondam neighbours, and to the delicately formed dolichokephal 

 female skull which now accompanies it. Nor does it resemble the 

 ordinary British brachykephal of the bronze period; but in 



