By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S. 



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these bones during- the time that they were lying unburied, though 

 it is difficult to understand how these animals could have abounded 

 on the open downs. 



All the specimens found on this occasion have been presented by 

 the lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Lord Heytesbury, to the 

 Wiltshire Museum. 



The numerous fragments of jaws with teeth have afforded to the 

 experienced eye of Mr. Storer Bennett means of judging of the 

 approximate age of the individuals, and have also enabled him to 

 obtain some curious particulars relative to the health and habits of 

 living of these people. He has favoured the Wiltshire Archaeological 

 Society with the results of his examination, as follow : — 



Report on Jaws and Teeth from Bowl's Barrow, 

 By Mr. Storer Bennett, 

 F.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P., Lond., L.D.S. Eng., 



Hon,. Curator, Museum Odontological Society, Great Britain. 



No. 1. Cranium of a young adult (probably between 20 and 25 

 years of age) . The sutures are in most cases ossified, but this takes 

 place earlier in the less intellectual races than among those which 

 are more civilized and cultivated and whose brains continue to in- 

 crease in size up to a late period of life ; the very small amount of 

 wear, however, to which the wisdom tooth has been subjected, shows 

 that its eruption cannot have preceded by more than a year or two 

 the death of its owner. 



The specimen contains all the teeth on the left side behind the 

 lateral incisor, and on the sight side the second bicuspid and first 

 and second molars. The sockets for the other teeth are present, 

 though damaged in transit by railway. 



The palatine arch is fine and well formed, the bony ridge for 

 muscular attachment being very prominent. The groove for the 

 transmission of the posterior palatine vessel and nerve along the 

 palate is crossed by a little bridge of bone on each side, just in front 

 of the palate bone, thus converting the groove into a foramen. 



The teeth are somewhat worn from the coarseness of the food 



