THE CRANIOLOGY OF THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND. 223 



In the course of the investigation the bones of six skeletons — four male adults, 

 a young woman and a child — were recognised on the floor of the chamber. In 

 attempting to remove the child's skull the frontal bone came away in my hand. 

 Three of the skulls, two adults and the child, were close to the back wall of the 

 chamber, whilst two other adult skulls lay close to the front wall. The position of 

 the sixth skull was not noted. The mingling of the bones with the compacted 

 sand, and their softened and fragmentary condition, made it impossible to disengage 

 the separate skeletons. As two of the skulls were near the front wall and three 

 at the back wall, it seemed as if the bodies had been laid in the transverse dia- 

 meter of the chamber side by side in a row, alternately heads and feet. The 



Fig. 31.— Skull A, Seaeliff. 



conditions under which the skeletons were found did not enable me to say 

 whether the bodies had been buried in the bent or the extended position. The 

 dimensions of the chamber were not taken, but it was sufficient to accommodate 

 the adults and the child lying side by side at full length. 



My notes do not refer to urns, implements or other relics as found in the 

 chamber. A few days after our visit Mr Laidlay brought to the University a box 

 containing five crania ; but the skull of the child, the bones of which had come 

 asunder, had not been preserved. Only one of the adult skulls was sufficiently entire 

 to permit of a fairly complete examination. The other four adults had no vestige 

 of a face, excepting portions of the lower jaw, and the cranium was so much injured 

 that accurate measurements of the dimensions could only be partially obtained. 



The entire skull, A, Table VI (fig. 31) belonged to an adult man, apparently in 



