By Maud E. Cunniiigton. 



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companion and age-long neighbour, but by reason of its manifold fracture 

 and reconstruction, it is not possible to give any estimate of much value. 

 Mme Pelletier would probably put the capacity somewhere about 1715 c. cm. ; 

 Pearson's and Lee's plans anywhere from 1570 to 1744 ; Manouvrier (Flower) 

 about 1680 ; my own computation would come out higher than any of these 

 figures (1877), but I do not doubt that it is excessive. However, the 

 dimensions are so great as to transcend the limits of any of Walcker's tables. 

 Though this old chieftain had so large a head, his stature was low, and not 

 above the Neolithic average. The estimates of Thurnam, of myself, of Karl 

 Pearson, and of Manouvrier, in this instance all agree within half-an-inch, 

 the average of the four being 1635 cm 8 , or 64*35 inches. This femur is 

 strongly contrasted with the Saxon one, not only in length but in robustness. 

 Their respective circumferences are 85 and 97 millimeters, and the Neolithic 

 ■one is somewhat pilastered, or its figure would be less than 85. - 



1 By kind permission of Captain Spicer the two skulls and the limb bones 

 have been placed in the Museum at Devizes. 



