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Bivsley Quarry, Tranent. — The skull was a male ; the cranial sutures were 

 in process of obliteration, and the teeth were flattened on the crowns but not 

 decayed. ' It was broadly ovoid, vertex flattened, sloping gently to the parietal 

 eminences, the parietooccipital slope abrupt, occipital squama not- bulging. The 

 cranium was 182 mm. long, 148 mm. broad, cephalic index 81-3, brachycephalic. 

 The forehead was broad, almost vertical, the glabella and supraciliaries well marked, 

 nasion a little depressed, facial bones mostly broken, but lower jaw massive, angle 

 distinct, chin marked, teeth complete (fig. 22, p. 201). 



Morrison's Haven, Prestonpans.—Skull male, sutures partially obliterated, teeth 

 flattened from use. Cranium elongated, somewhat pentagonal in outline, not 

 flattened in sagittal region, sloping markedly to parietal eminences and in parieto- 

 occipital region, occipital squama somewhat behind inion. Forehead retreating, 

 glabella prominent with mesial suture, supraciliaries prominent. Length 188 mm., 

 breadth 137 mm., height 141 mm. Cephalic index 72*9, vertical index 75, breadth 

 less than height, skull dolichocephalic. Nasion depressed, nasal bones slender, 

 moderately projecting, index 51, mesorhine. Upper jaw orthognathous. Upper 

 orbital border thick, index 82, microseme. Small Wormian in lambdoid suture. 

 Cranial capacity 1450 c.c. (fig. 25) (Table V). 



Belfield and Kirk Park. — In a male skull from the largest Belfield cist the 

 teeth were only slightly worn and the sutures partially ossified. The outline was 

 incomplete owing to the right parieto-temporal being imperfect. The slope of the 

 vault from the sagittal line to the eminences was moderate, the parieto-occipital 

 slope was abrupt, and the occipital squama was not bulging. The cranium was 

 180 mm. long and 141 mm. in basi-bregmatic diameter, the vertical index was 78*3, 

 but the cephalic could not be computed. The general aspect of the skull was 

 brachycephalic (figs. 26, 27). The forehead somewhat retreated, the glabella and 

 supraciliaries were well marked (Table V). 



Two skulls from short cists exposed in the Kirk Park adjoining have been pre- 

 served. One (A), given to me by Dr James Craigie in 1890, was that of a man in 

 middle life. The outline of the cranium was broadly oval, the vertex was flattened, 

 the parietal eminences were distinct, the parieto-occipital region was incomplete, also 

 the glabella. The cranial length was 178 mm., the breadth was 141 mm., cephalic 

 index 79*2, the basi-bregmatic height 130 mm. ; the vertical index was 73. The upper 

 jaw was orthognathous. The femora showed indications of platymery and the tibiae 

 of platyknemia. The lower jaw had a well-marked angle and a projecting chin. 



Of another specimen (B), a female, the right half is in the National Museum 

 of Antiquities (E.T.* 64).. In it the vertex was flattened, the parieto-occipital 

 slope was steep, the occipital squama was flattened, the forehead was nearly vertical, 

 the glabella and supraciliaries were moderate. The cranial length was 172 mm., 

 basi-bregmatic height 127 mm., vertical index 73"8. Though the breadth could 

 not be ascertained, the general type of skull was without doubt brachycephalic. 



