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XVIII. 



ON SOME HUMAN REMAINS RECENTLY DISCOVERED 

 NEAR LISMORE. By D. J. CUNNINGHAM, M.D., E.R.S., 

 AND C. R. BROWNE, M.D. 



[Read April 26, 1897.] 



The remains described in this Paper were, some time ago, dug up 

 during the progress of some drainage works at Lismore, in what 

 appeared to have been a crannoge, and were forwarded to the Anthro- 

 pological Laboratory, Trinity College, by the discoverer, Mr. R. J. 

 Ussher, who has described the nature of the sepulture and the cir- 

 cumstances of the find in the previous Paper. The bones which 

 are of a reddish-brown colour from the nature of the soil in which 

 they have lain, and brittle from loss of animal matter, present many 

 points of interest. They appear to have belonged to two indi- 

 viduals; one a female of small stature and about middle age, the other 

 a young man somewhat above the middle height and of considerable 

 muscular development. 



The remains submitted to us for examination consist of a cranium, 

 a mutilated calvarium, an inferior maxilla, right scapula and humerus, 

 two radii, two ulnse, a complete pelvis, a much mutilated os innomi- 

 natum, three lumbar vertebrte, and two left femora. 



The bones belonging to each subject are as follows : — No. 1 (the 

 female). Cranium, right scapula, right humerus, part of the left 

 OS innominatum, the left femur. No. 2. Part of the cranial vault, 

 consisting of os frontis, and both parietals with a small epactal, the 

 mandible, bones of both forearms, the pelvis (the sacrum a good deal 

 broken), the left femur and the first three lumber vertebra3. 



No. 1. Cranium. — This is well shapen and of a high type, and 

 e^4dently that of a female of middle age. It is moderately brachy- 

 cephalic (index 80-8), and of small size, its cubic capacity being only 

 1295 cubic centimetres. The forehead is broad and upright, the 

 frontal eminences fairly well marked, and the vertex flattened. The 

 glabella and superciliary ridges are well developed for a female, and 

 the mastoid processes are small. The sutures are complex (No. 4 

 Broca), but to a large extent obliterated, the spheno-parietal sutures 



