LECTURE XIII. 



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latter occupy the intermediate place and the children possess- 

 ing the roundest heads the extreme of the series, we obtain 

 the striking result that seven Borreby skulls have a remark- 

 Fig. 120. Bori-eby Stall, top view. 



able agreement, and represent the widest heads, their measure- 

 ment being from 80*2 to 82*6, whilst all other skulls found 

 elsewhere measure less, and some even are decided narrow 

 heads. Whether the arch^ological designation is here in 

 fault, or whether there existed a geographically different stock, 

 cannot be decided from the facts at hand. It is very possible 

 that even at that period there existed in some districts of 

 Denmark a mixture of narrow heads and short heads, as at 

 Meudon, where in an old sepulchre under a dolmen both types 

 were found well represented. 



Be this as it may, the skulls_of Borreby, which we take as the 

 special types of the Danish skulls of the Stone Period, appear 

 decidedly brachy cephalic. Their mean measurement amounts to 

 81 "3, and occupies in Welcker's table an intermediate place be- 

 tween the Germans, Eussians, and Turks. The skull is generally 

 well rounded, the forehead rather flat, but not badly developed ; 



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