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The characters of this calvarium indicate that it belonged to a 

 male of about 40 years of age. 



The inferior maxilla is fractured across to the right of the sym- 

 physis, the right side is much weathered and reduced in size by the 

 damp. All the teeth were present at the time of death, the sockets 

 being unabsorbed, but only three remain in situ ; these are much 

 worn away on the crowns, as is usually the case with the teeth in 

 ancient Irish crania. The mental process is very well marked. 



Eut little can be .^aid with respect to the other bones ; they possess 

 no special characters and are much weathered, but are stout and 

 evidently belonged to a man above the middle height. The left 

 humerus is not perforated. The left ulna and radius are entire ; the 

 ulna measures 286 mm. in extreme length, 255 mm. between articular 

 surfaces ; the left radius measures 273 mm. 



The femora have the head set into the shaft at a very obtuse 

 angle ; they are much weathered and the left is broken. The right 

 femur measures 498 mm. 



The upper part of the shaft of the left tibia is very narrow and 

 flattened from before and backwards, but the specimen is so weathered 

 that it is difficult to say whether this is due to decay or to the presence 

 of the condition known as platychnemia. 



The bones seem to be those of a man of about 40 years of age and 

 of above the middle stature, the height as calculated from the femur 

 (taken as 27-4 m. of the stature) being 1817 mm. or 5 feet 11^ 

 inches. 



Cranial Measurements. 



Glabello-occipital length, 



189 



Ophryo-occipital length, 



187 



Maximum breadth, 



150 



Bi-stephanic width, 



121 



Ei-asteric width, . 



116 



Frontal longitudinal arc, 



142 



Parietal longitudinal arc, 



133 



Occipital ,, arc. 



113 



Nasio-opisthial arc, 



388 



Spheno-parietal suture, . 



10 



Cephalic Index, 



79-4 



