310 The Discovery of a Chamber in the Long Barrow at Lanhill. 



The skull has been carefully restored, but some of the figures must of 

 course be somewhat doubtful. The vertical , aspect is dolichokephal and 

 somewhat pentagonal, the occiput prominent but rounded, the glabella and 

 ridges only moderately developed, the upper frontal region full. The skull is 

 large and capacious, but not thick, coarse, or heavy. The capacity, estimated 

 by Welcker's tables, might vary between 1628 and 1750 ; by Pearson's, from 

 1571 to 1737 ; by Manouvrier's, perhaps 1587 ; Pelletier's, 1722. My plan 

 gives 1822, which is probably too great, owing to the enormous horizontal 

 circumference and sagittal length. But my estimate would be over 1700, 

 considerably more than the average capacity of modern English crania. The 

 head was that of the chief of the family or tribe, and deservedly so. I suppose 

 that Femora 1 and 2, Tibia 1, Fibulae 2 and 3, Ulna 2, and Clavicles 4 and 5 

 may have belonged to him. These are all free from the kind of peppergrain 

 discoloration which affects so many of these bones, and which I cannot 

 explain with certainty. On the whole, these remains are typically neolithic. 1 



1 By kind permission of Sir Audley Neeld the fragments of pottery, the 

 skull, and a few of the more perfect limb bones, have been placed in the 

 Museum at Devizes. The rest of the bones have been re-interred in the 

 barrow. 



