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The frontal sinuses are full and prominent ; the forehead is narrow 

 and somewhat flat and receding. Viewed from above the skull is 

 seen to have a much more lengthened oval form than that from 

 barrow No. 2. (Wilts Mag. vol. iii. p. 186). The thickest parts 

 of the parietals measure a third, those of the frontal bones half an 

 inch. Immediately behind the coronal suture is a depression which 

 extends across the parietal bones, and seems to indicate that this 

 part of the skull was subject to some habitual pressure or constric- 

 tion ; from the use perhaps of some form of bandage or ligature. 

 This may possibty explain the fact of the sutures of the cranium 

 being more obliterated than is usual in persons of middle age. The 

 capacity of the skull is large, and such as indicates a brain weigh- 

 ing about 56 oz. The characteristics of this skull, though Ancient 

 British or Celtic, are less strongly marked than those of the skull 

 No. 2, which may perhaps point to a more modern period, though 

 unfortunately the archaeological evidence as to this is wanting. The 

 much lighter and more decayed condition of the bones is very ap- 

 parent, and agrees with the fact of the body having been interred 

 in a superficial cist, and covered by a barrow of slight elevation." 



When Dr. Thurnam made the above remark, as to the insuffici- 

 ency of the archaeological evidence in this case, it was impossible to 

 identify this barrow as the one in which the iron ring and pieces 

 of ivory were found. Our recent researches however leave no 

 doubt on the subject, and thus corroborate the opinion of Dr. Thur- 

 nam, that it is of a more modern period than the barrrow No. 2 r 

 to which he refers. It dates probably much nearer to the Eoman 

 period. 



Barrow No. 4 is situated on the brow of the hill, very near the 

 right hand corner of the "Leipsic" plantation. It is doubtless 

 one of the barrows opened by the late Mr. Cunnington. It is thus 

 briefly noticed in "Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire." 1 



" A small circular tumulus on the right hand as you reach the 

 summit from Devizes." (The main course of the track has been 

 diverted from the left to the right hand of the barrow since this 

 was written.) "At the depth of four feet and a half it produced 



1 Vol. ii. p. 98. 



