Ma.cal[steu — A Bronze- Age Burial near Galballi/, Co. Tyrone. 153 



Femora — The left femur is nearly perfect, but a part of the medial condyle 

 is broken off. 'i'he length is 462 mm. (the average European length is 

 450-460). On the basis of the principle that the femur is 0'275 of the 

 stature, this gives a stature for the subject of 1680 mm. (about 5 feet 6 inches). 

 'I'he diameter of the head is 44 mm., which is small for a male. The sliaft is 

 nearly straight, flattened in the upper part, and has a well-marked lateral 

 flange ; there is a small ridge in the upper part of the gluteal line. Tibiae — 

 The length, omitting the spine and malleolus, is 366 mm. ; the bone is flattened 

 laterally, the anterior-posterior diameter being 30 mm., the transverse 

 diameter 20 mm , at the level of the nutrient foramen. Owing to the broken 

 condition of the lower end, the presence or absence of tbe squatting facet 

 cannot be determined. 'J'he index of proportion between tibia and 



femur ( ^— ) is 857 ; the average European index is 83 ; the tibia is. 



therefore, longer in proportion than in a normal European The humertin has 

 lost its upper end. There is a well-marked epitrochlear foramen. 



B—A young subject, most probably female, under twenty years of age — 

 probably about seventeen. Skull — Bones thin, all the sutures open, and 

 simple in character. The basilar synchondrosis is open ; the mastoid process 

 is small, the forehead vertical, with well-marked frontal prominence, but no 

 superciliary ridge. There are grooves for the supraorbital nerve on the frontal 

 bone. The muscular impression and lines are feebly marked. The palate is 

 rather long and narrow, with no crowding of the tooth sockets. All the 

 teeth of the upper jaw are lost except the third molar, which is still in its 

 crypt. The length, as nearly as can be measured, is 175, the breadth 136, 

 giving an approximate cranial index of 77'7. The inaudible, unlike that of 

 the man, is strongly developed, the ramus being wide from before backwards ; 

 the notch is shallow and wide. The mental eminence is small. The teeth as a 

 whole are well developed and not much worn ; the third molar is still in its 

 crypt. Bight humei ua exhibits upper end of diaphysis ; the epiphysis, which 

 is not united, is missing; lower end imperfect. Of the left humerus only the 

 shaft is preserved. The upper ends of the feinora are broken off; the lower 

 ends show that the epiphyses had not united to the shafts. We thus have 

 no material for estimating the stature of this subject. 



In a letter to me Professor Dixon says : — " I feel that the form of the 

 [male] cranium is rather surprising. The lower jaw of the female is of the 

 type one would expect in a prehistoric Irish skull ; that of the male is not. 

 The vertical forehead in both skulls is striking." 



R.I.A. PROC, VOL. XXXVI, SECT. C. [17] 



