194 Mr Joseph Barnard Davis on Human Skulls 
No. 13, from a rude cist, is probably the skull of a woman 
of about forty-five years of age. It presents a good deal of 
resemblance to No. 8, but the face has apparently had pre- 
tensions to womanly beauty, and the nose has been aquiline. 
In deseribing these skulls as having an aboriginal or Pictish 
air, it is not to be understood that they present precisely 
the same peculiarities of form as the skulls which are de- 
rived from the short stone cists of Scotland, belonging to the 
primeval period, one of which, from Kinaldy, in Banffshire, is 
figured in the “Crania Britannica,” plate 25, and others in 
plates 15 and 16; but they appear, in the eyes of the writer, 
to have a tendency towards those peculiarities of form, whilst 
they are not precisely the same, and not so rude in their 
traits; indeed, they certainly do not differ from them mate- 
rially. The average measurements of the three skulls of 
men, Nos. 4, 8, and 9, will be found to be slighly below the 
averages of twenty male skulls of the aboriginal series of the 
“ Crania Britannica,’’ which I have added to the table for 
comparison. 
In approaching the second section of the skulls, or those 
derived from graves or tombs, of which Nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 
11, 12, and 15, are all those of men, we are at once struck 
with their fine capacious appearance. This will be clearly 
apparent by an examination of their average measurements. 
Nos. 5 and 12 are decidedly brachycephalic; No. 3 just 
comes within the brachycephalic category ; and all the rest 
are dolichocephalic ; No. 6, the largest skull of the whole 
series, deserving the name of platycephalic. It will thus 
be at once apparent, that, in this section of the skulls, the 
brachycephalic character is much less prevalent ; so it is also. 
with the other peculiarities which appertain to aboriginal 
crania. ‘The boss over the frontal sinuses is not very promi- 
nent ; the nasal bones do not descend very abruptly from a 
great depression ; the forehead is of good size and elevation ; 
the occipital region well developed and generally prominent ; 
the entire calvarium is well and equally swollen out and 
smooth, a peculiarity mostly strange to the skulls of all abo- 
riginal people ; and the ovoid outline, when viewed vertically, 
