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to the later part of the Stone period. In the words of Professor 

 Wilson, it " is square and compact in form, broad and short, but 

 well balanced, and with a good frontal development. The supra- 

 ciliaries are moderately elevated." 



Nether Urquliart {Fifeshire). — Tig. 8. — This is one of the 

 JcumlecepJicdic or boat-shaped skulls which were found in a cairn in 

 Fifeshire in 1835. It is supposed to belong to the early part of 

 the Stone period. This period might be called the protolithic (from 



Fig. 8. — Human skull from Nether Urquliart (scale \ linear). 



7rpojT09, first, and Xt^o?, stone). The long, narrow and shelving occiput, 

 the retrocedent frontals, and the prominent supraciliaries, indicate 

 the similarity of this skull to that from Sennen, to which I have 

 already alluded. 



The researches of Professor Wilson lead him to the result that the 

 kumbecephalic (dolichocephalic) races in Great Britain antedated 

 the brachy cephalic races in time ; those of Professor Nilsson, that the 

 brachycephalic men in Scandinavia flourished before the dolicho- 

 cephalic races. 



Phjmoulh. — Pig. 9. — In this small portion of a cranium, "found 

 ill a limestone quarry at Plymouth, at a depth of about six feet 



Fig. 9.— lluniau skull from Plymouth (scale \ liuear). 



below the present turf," tlie retrocedence of the forehead is very 

 remarkable. Tlio supraorbital ridges project but slightly, and are 

 disrontiiuunis over the nasal bone. The fractured condition of the 



