By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S. 



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from this barrow, in 1864, by Dr. Thurnam (See engravings). 1 It 

 also exhibits distinct, though partial, synostosis of the interparietal 

 suture. 2 



2. Calvarium. Cephalic index, 65*0. Found in an upright 

 position. Cleft on left side — greater part of left temporal bone 

 gone. Slightly gnawed by rodents. Coronal suture partially 

 closed — also a portion of the sagittal. 



3. Calvarium (distorted) — bone but little decayed. Cephalic 

 index, 72'0. Slight depression across the skull, behind the coronoid 

 suture, as if produced by bandage in infancy. Slightly gnawed by 

 rodents. Cleft in orbit of left eye. Sutures, except frontal, not closed. 



4. Large portion of calvarium with left orbit. Cephalic index, 

 66 "6. Found in an upright position. Extensive cleavage of left 

 side of skull. Traces of depression behind the coronoid. Slightly 

 gnawed. Sutures, except frontal, quite open. 



5. Large part of calvarium — the upper part (bowl-shaped) had 

 been cleft off, and was perfect when found. A marked depression 

 across the skull, behind the coronoid. Gnawed by rodents. Sutures 

 open. 



6. Upper part of a skull, cleft by a blow inflicted above the eyes. 

 Thin. Coronal and sagittal sutures open. 



1 For the use of the woodcuts of Dr. Thurnam's specimen (now in the Cambridge 

 Museum) the Society is indebted to the Anthropological Society of Great Britain, 

 by the kindness of F. W. Rudler, Esq. 



2 The late Dr. Thurnam read a paper at the meeting of the British Association, 

 at Bath, September, 1864, " On Synostosis of the Cranial Bones, especially of the 

 parietals, regarded as a Race character in one class of Ancient British and in 

 African Skulls." He observes of the Ancient British skulls from the chambered 

 and other long barrows of the Stone Period that the general form is elongated 

 or dolichocephalous, aud that they are strikingly distinguished from the brachy- 

 cephalous skulls from the circular barrows of the Bronze Period not only by 

 their general form, but also by their greater tendency to early and premature 

 obliteration of the sutures. The long form of the skull and the premature 

 obliteration of the sutures appear to be coincident phenomena, not standing to 

 each other in the relation of cause and effect, though they are probably both of 

 them characteristic of the races." — Nat. Hist. Rev., No. xviii., April, 1865, 

 These views are fully considered in the above-mentioned paper, and are illustrated 

 by a table of measurements and by engravings of crania from various countries, 

 including woodcuts of a skull from Bowl's Barrow. 



