62 — Professor D. Wilson’s Lllustrations of the Significance 
I have been thus particular in describing this interest- 
ing skull, because it furnishes some points of comparison 
with British kumbecephalic crania, bearing on the inquiry, 
whether we may not thus recover traces of the Phcenician 
explorers of the Cassiterides in the long-headed builders of 
the chambered barrows. When contrasting the wide and 
nearly virgin area with which Dr Morton had to deal, with 
that embraced in the scheme of the ‘‘ Crania Britannica,” I 
remarked in 1857:—Compared with such a wide field of 
investigation, the little island home of the Saxons may 
well seem narrow ground for exploration ; but to the ethno- 
logist itis not so. There, amid the rudest traces of pri- 
meval arts, he seeks, and probably not in vain, for the 
remains of primitive European allophylize. There it is not 
improbable that both Phoenicians and early Greek navi- 
gators have left behind thein evidences of their presence, 
such as he alone can discriminate.” 
Before, however, we can abandon ourselves to the temp- 
tations of so seductive a theory,—which, after all, finds 
only such support as may be deduced from a certain general 
analogy of cranial form, and derives no confirmation from 
the works of art accompanying the remains of the long- 
headed barrow-builders,—it has to be borne in remembrance 
that the question is still disputed with reference to this 
class of British dolichocephalic crania: are they examples 
of an essentially distinct type, preserving evidence of the 
characteristics of a different race, or are they mere excep- 
tional aberrant deviations from the supposed brachycephalic 
Celtic or British type? Much stress is laid on the fact 
that the two forms of skull have occasionally been recovered 
from the same barrow; from which it may be inferred that 
the two races to which I conceive them to have belonged, 
were for a more or less limited period contemporaneous. 
More than this I cannot regard as a legitimate induction 
from such premises, in relation to crania of such extremely 
diverse types. But this amounts to little; for the same is 
undoubtedly true of the ancient British and the modern 
Anglo-Saxon race; and the discovery of Celtic and Saxon 
* Canadian Journal, vol. ii. p. 445. 
