Vol. 60.] 



HUMAN' REMAIN'S IN' GOUGKS C WEEN'. CHEDDAR. 



343 



frontal bone (9 millimetres) has been already mentioned. The 

 amount of prognathism cannot be determined, but from the form of 

 the lower jaw it must have been a marked feature of the face. The 

 nasal aperture is narrow, the orbits large, and the general shape of 

 the skull oval. The molar teeth are worn on the right side, but 

 the cusps remain well-preserved on the left. The lower canines 

 are much worn and rounded. Two of the phalanges have found 

 their way into the cranium, and are now cemented to the base of 

 the frontal bone at the back of the orbits. 



The femur measures 17§ inches in maximum length, and the 

 humerus 12| inches ; and, using Dr. Beddoe's formulas, we obtain 

 from either of these measurements a height of a trifle over 

 5 feet 5 inches. 



The tibia has a peculiar section, fig. 6, no. 2 (p. 34-1). The angular 

 portion is very acute, the sides flat, and the widest part about 

 three-fourths back from the ridge. Its antero-posterior diameter is 

 38 millimetres, and the diameter at right angles to this, drawn 

 from the interosseous ridge, 20 mm. ; so that the latitudinal index 

 is -526, which is exceedingly low. With the kind permission of 

 the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the very valuable 

 help of Prof. Charles Stewart, F.R.S., I have been able to obtain 

 sections of the Tilbury tibia, an Andamanese, and a normal English 

 tibia. They are shown, together with the section of the tibia from 

 Cheddar, in fig. 6 (p. 344) ; and their measurements are set forth 

 in the following table : — 



Locality. 



Antero- 

 posterior 

 diameter. 



Transi 

 diameter from 

 interosseous 



ridge. 



Latitudinal 

 index. 



Cheddar eave-earth 



millimetres. 

 38 



36 



26 

 31 



millimetres. 

 20 



21 



17 



24 



•52(3 

 ■583 



•653 

 •774 



Tilbury fluviatile deposit ... 

 Andaman Islands, recent ... 

 Normal English 







From the foregoing measurements it will be seen that the Cheddar 

 tibia is an extraordinary bone, being flatter and more platycnemic 

 than the Tilbury specimen, which is the next most extreme type 

 that I have seen, and is classed in the National Collection at South 

 Kensington, with a query, as Palaeolithic. 



The flint -flakes taken from the cave-earth of the vestibule 6 

 and the fissure g (fig. 1, p. 335) are beautifully patinated. Some 

 have only a central ridge ; others have two, three, or even four 

 ridges. Many are rounded at one end, some at both ends ; others 

 are pointed, but not by secondary working. Two appear to ha've 



