CRANIOLOGY OF THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND. 585 



cuts, and it is possible that the man may have been one of the combatants at the battle 

 of Killiecrankie. 



Seen in the norma verticalis the cranium was greatly elongated, and relatively 

 narrow ; the cephalic index was only 69*7, hyperdolichocephalic ; the base of the 

 cranium was much broken, and none of the measurements from the basion could be 

 taken. 



The glabella and supraorbital ridges were distinct ; the forehead only slightly 

 receded ; the cranial vault formed a lofty curve ; the post-parietal region sloped gently 

 downwards, and the occipital squama was convex. 



Argyllshire. Table XIV. Plate V. 



In the collection of the Henderson Trust are three skulls from Argyllshire ; two 

 (Nos. 25 and 26, H. T.) were found near Crutchingman on Loch Tarbert, Kintyre, and 

 one of these is referred to in the Prehistoric Annals as having been dug up in a cave, 

 near to where tradition affirms that a battle was fought between the natives and the 

 Northmen. The third skull, H. T. 5, was dug out of the sand on the sea-beach at 

 Larnahinden, where a party of " Danes " are said to have landed and been defeated. 

 No. 25 has the characters of a female skull. They were adults, and with the crowns of 

 the teeth flattened from use. 



Norma verticalis. — These skulls were elongated ovoids, elevated on the line of 

 the sagittal suture, sloping steeply outwards to the parietal eminences, with vertical 

 sides, with the postero-parietal region sloping gently downwards and the occipital squama 

 convex. The crania were characteristically dolichocephalic, the mean index being 70 '6. 

 The basi-bregmatic height was a little less than the greatest breadth. In one, the inter- 

 zygomatic breadth exceeded the parieto-squamous, in another it was slightly below it. 



The glabella and supraorbital ridges were strong in the male skulls, and the nasion was 

 depressed ; the bridge of the nose was prominent, and its floor was separated from the 

 incisive region by a crest. The forehead was retreating in the male. In one, the 

 gnathic index was orthognathous ; in two, in the lower mesognathic group ; in one, the 

 face was leptoprosopic, in another chamaeprosopic. In all three the nose was leptorhine. 

 The orbits varied, in the proportion of height and width, one being in each division of 

 the group. Two of the palato-alveolar arches were dolichuranic, one was mesuranic. 

 Two specimens had a right epipteric bone ; two had small Wormian bones in the 

 lambdoidal suture, and in one of these a minute sutural bone was at the anterior end of 

 the sagittal suture. 



Boss and Sutherland. Table XIV. Plate IV. 



An adult male skull was obtained from each of these counties ; that from Ross was 

 metopic, and the alveolar border of the lower jaw was, to a large extent, absorbed ; that 



