of certain Ancient British Skull Forms. 63 
skulls in a common barrow or tumulus of the sixth century 
is no proof that the latter race was not preceded by many 
centuries in the occupation of the country by the Britons, 
among whom they then mingled as conquerors and sup- 
planters. But the elongated skulls are no rare and excep- 
tional forms. They have been most frequently found in 
tombs of a peculiar character, and of great antiquity. Many 
| have been recovered in too imperfect a state to admit of more 
| being deduced from the fragments than that these conform 
_ to the more perfect examples of the peculiar type. Never- 
theless the number already obtained in asufficiently pertect 
| state to admit of detailed measurement is remarkable, when 
their great age and the circumstances of their recovery are 
| fully considered. Of this the following enumeration will 
afford satisfactory proof. Only two perfect crania from the 
| chambered tumulus of Uley, in Gloucestershire,—of which 
the proportions of one are cited above,—have been pre- 
‘served. But in the later search of Mr Freeman and Dr 
| Thurnam, in 1854, the fragments of eight or nine other 
| skulls were recovered, and of these the latter remarks: 
|“ The fragments are interesting, as proving that the charac- 
| ters observed in the more perfect crania were common to 
the individuals interred in this tumulus. Three or four cal- 
| varia are sufficiently complete to show that in them likewise 
| the length of the skulls had been great in proportion to the 
breadth.“ Again, in the megalithic tumulus of Littleton 
| Drew, North Wilts, at least twenty-six skeletons appear to 
have been found, from several of which imperfect crania 
| were recovered, and of those Dr Thurnam remarks: “ Hight 
}or nine crania were sufficiently perfect for comparison. 
| With one exception, in which a lengthened oval form is 
}not marked, they are of the dolichocephalic class.”+ So. 
also the four nearly perfect skulls from West Kennet are 
described as “‘ more or less of the lengthened oval form, 
| with the occiput expanded and projecting, and presenting a 
strong contrast to skulls from the circular barrows of Wilts 
and Dorset.”{ To these may be added those of Stoney Little- 
* Archeol. Journal, vol. xi. p. 318. Crania Britannica, Dec. i. pl. 5. 
+ Crania Britannica, Dec iii. pl. 24 (3). 
t Ibid. Dec. v. pl. 50 (4). 
