290 FOOTPRINTS OF VANISHED RACES IN CORNWALL. 



The skull found at Carnon is also separately figured by Mr. 

 Henwood.^^'^ These relics were deep below the surface in the 

 alluvium (or "overburden") above the tin ground, and were 

 associated with the bones of deer and wild oxen. Mr. E. Q. 

 Couch pronounced the Pentuan skulls to be unlike any now 

 existing/^^ and they are certainly not ordinary Neolithic type. 

 Mr. E. N. Woi'th has claimed a high antiquity for the Carnon 

 remains/^ but as a metal crucifix was found in the same deposit 

 at a depth of 40 feet beneath the surface, it does not seem safe to 

 give to the Carnon skeleton a high antiquity. Human skulls 

 were also found under 40 feet of sand and mud, in the overbur- 

 den of one of the stream works at Pentuan, ^^ along with the 

 bones of deer and oxen ; but, here again, the age of the human 

 remains is extremely doubtful.^^^ Another remarkable Cornish 

 skull, for which a great antiquity is claimed, is that which is 

 called the Sennen skull, and which is figured and described by 

 Mr. Borlase,^^*^ and also by Mr. Carter Blake ;^^^ Professor Busk 

 also^^^ has noticed it. This skull is very long (dolichocephalic) 

 and is of a true Neolithic type. It is said to have been found at 

 Sennen, in a peat-bog or forest, 30 feet below the sea level, but 

 nothing more seems to be known about it. The skulls found 

 recently at Harlyn are certainly of Neolithic age, being truly 

 dolichocephalic, and also slightly prognathous, which latter 

 characteristic unites them to a certain Neolithic type of skull found 

 at Borreby in Denmark. ^^^ Dr. Beddoe, who has described the Har- 

 lyn skulls,"^ has drawn attention to the solitary well dolichocephalic 



131. Ibid. Ill the same article, p. 208. They are also noticed by him in 

 Transaciions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall,, vol. iv, p. 58. 



132. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, vol. vii, p, 235 



T33. In his paper on The Antiquity of Mining in the West of England, published 

 in the Journal of the Plynioiuh Institution, 1874, 'vol. v, p. 140. 



134. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, vol. iv, p. 36, and Sir 

 Henry De la Beche's Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, 

 p. 402. 



135. No details seem to have been published about these Pentewan skulls. Mr. 

 J. W. Colenso actually thoug-ht they might have belonged to Africans or Asiatics ! 



136. The Dolmens of Ireland, vol. iii, p. 944. 



137. The Geologist, vol. v, p. 211. 



138. Natural History Review, vol. i [i86i] p. 174. I know of veiy few details 

 concerning this skull. 



139. Figured by M. Fraipont in his Les Cavemes et leurs Habitattts. 



140. Journal of ihe licyal Institution of Cornuall, vol. xv, 1902, pp. 161 — 179. 



