Notes on Bowl's Barrow. 



No. 28. Portion of alveolar, palatine, and zygomatic processes 

 of an adult right upper maxilla, containing the lateral incisor, 

 canine, bicuspids, and first and second molars, with the empty 

 sockets of the central incisor (lost since death). The teeth are 

 fairly worn, and the lateral incisor is separated from the canine by 

 a space the width of a new shilling, the canine being separated from 

 the first bicuspid by about half that distance. 



A large antral cavity exists in the specimen, of a somewhat oval 

 shape. 



No. 29. The alveolar process of left upper maxilla, from a young 

 adult, containing the two bicuspids and three molars, slightly worn, 

 but the wisdom tooth has evidently been in position but a short 

 time. The base of a lozenge-shaped antrum is displayed. 



N. 30. Fragment of the alveolar process of a right upper young 

 adult maxilla, from a subjeet even younger than the preceding one i 

 the teeth — the second and third molars — being very little worn 

 indeed. 



No. 31. Fragment of left upper maxilla from a young subject, 

 containing the lateral and canine teeth, scarcely worn at all. The 

 empty socket of the central incisor is also present. 



The lateral incisor displays a well-marked cingulum. 



The important conclusions at which our late friend and fellow- 

 member, Br. Thurnam, arrived, as the result of his researches in 

 the barrows of the south-west of England, though adopted by most 

 modern antiquaries, are not as yet generally known. — It may be 

 well to give a brief summary. 



I. — That the long barrows are older than the round barrows, so 

 numerous in the district. 



II. — That they contain the relics of " the earliest inhabitants of 

 Britain of whom any sepulchral monuments remain" 



III. — That the crania from the primary interments of these long 

 barrows are invariably long in shape — dolichocephalic, or hyper- 

 dolichocephalic. 1 



1 For a full explanation of the classification and nomenclature of the forms of 

 human crania, see a paper by Dr. Garson, p. 505 of the last vol. of the Magazine. 



