= eet 
58 Professor D, Wilson’s Illustrations of the Significance 
is seldom met with expressed in so marked a manner.”* 
No. 3, is a skull from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Lit- 
lington, Sussex, one of two of which Dr Davis remarks,— 
‘‘ There is a general indication of good form in these fine 
capacious skulls, which is apparent in every aspect. ... . 
On a review of the whole series of Anglo-Saxon crania 
which have come under our notice, we are led to conclude 
that this pleasing oval, rather dolichocephalic form, may 
best be deserving the epithet of typical among them.”} All 
the three examples are male skulls :— 
a 
| 
L,'D. | ¥.'B. | P, B. 10, Bs) A: |e. 
{ 
1. Uley Chambered Barrow Skull....,8°1 | 47/57 )|5> | 5:1 |21-7 | 
2. Codford Skull.. Acti | 6:8) 46/57 | 51) 47 \20- 
| 3. Litlington = Utama |75|47) 53) 46/49 209 
Kach of the above examples presents the features of the 
type to which it belongs with more than usual prominence, 
so that if the mean of a large series were taken, the ele- 
ments of difference between the three would be less strongly 
defined. The differences are, however, those on which 
their separate classification depends, and they thus illustrate 
the special points on which any craniological comparison 
for ethnological purposes must be based. Of the three 
skulls, the era and race of one of them (No. 3) are well de- 
termined. It is that of a Saxon, probably of the seventh 
or eighth century, of the race of the South Saxons, de- 
scended from Ailla and his followers, and recovered in a 
district where the permanency of the same ethnic type is 
illustrated by its predominance among the rural population 
at the present day. Another of the selected examples 
(No. 2) is assumed by Dr Davis, probably on satisfactory 
grounds, to be an ancient British, z.e., Celtic skull. It is 
indeed a difficulty, which has still to be satisfactorily ex- 
plained, how it is, that if this brachycephalic type be the 
true British head-form, no such prevalence of the form is 
to be found, on modern Celtic areas, as'in the case of Saxon 
* Orania Britannica, Dec. ii. pl. 14. 
t Ibid. Dee. iv. pls. 39, 40. 
