of certain Ancient British Skull Forms. 59 
Sussex connects the race of its ancient pagan and Christian 
cemeteries with the Anglo-Saxon population of the present 
day. The historical race and era with which Dr Davis 
conceives the barrow-builders of Wiltshire to be connected 
is thus indicated in the “‘ Crania Britannica,” ‘Region of the 
Belge, Temp. Ptolemei, a.p. 120.” The Belge of that era— 
apparently then comparatively recent intruders, and by 
some regarded as not Celtic, but Germanic—were displaced, 
if not exterminated; but the modern Britons of Wales 
are undoubted descendants of British Celts of Ptolemy’s 
age. Though mingling both Saxon and Norman with pure 
British blood, they probably preserve the native type as 
little modified by such foreign admixture as that of its sup- 
planters in the most thoroughly Saxon or Anglish districts 
of England. It is therefore a question of some importance, 
how far the extreme brachycephalic proportions of the so- 
called British type may be traceable to other than inherited 
ethnical characteristics. Meanwhile, turning from this 
supposed British skull of Roman times to the one derived 
from Uley chambered barrow, No. 1, the most ancient of 
the series, and assuming their chronological order to be 
undisputed, as it appears to be, we find no gradation from 
an abbreviated to an elongated form, but, on the contrary, 
an extreme brachycephalic type interposed between the ovoid 
dolichocephalic Anglo-Saxon of the Christian era and the 
extreme dolichocephalic, or kumbecephalic one belonging 
to a period seemingly so remote, that Dr Thurnam, when 
noting the recurrence of the same type in another chambered 
barrow at Littleton Drew, Wiltshire, remarked, “It is not 
necessary to admit the existence of any pre-Celtic race, as 
the skulls described may be those of Gaelic, as distinguished 
from Cymric, Celts; or the long-headed builders of these long, 
chambered, stone barrows, may have been an intrusive people, 
who entered Britain from the south-west. Can they have 
been some ancient Iberian or Ibero-Pheoenician settlers ?””* 
Among the rarer crania of the Morton collection is one 
to which a peculiar interest attaches, and which may 
possibly have some significance in reference to this in- 
quiry. Its history is narrated in Dr Henry S. Paterson’s 
* Crania Britannica, Dee. iii. pl. 24 (4). 
