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somewhat shorter and broader, and more or less pear-shaped in form, 
or, as it has been termed by some writers, " coffin-shaped." In one 
of these latter (L) the forehead is very rounded, the frontal bosses 
are well-marked, and the occipital region terminates very abruptly, so 
as to give a truncated appearance to the back of the head. The 
fourth specimen (G) presents characters intermediate between these 
two kinds ; it agrees with the first four in being long and narrow, but 
in the details of its outline it agrees with the second three. When 
the skulls are placed in a row and viewed from the front, the form of 
the arch of the cranial vault is observed to be very characteristic, 
being pointed in the first four specimens, while it is flat in the other 
four. These varieties in the form of the cranial arch are equally 
observable when the skulls are looked at from behind. As the differ- 
ences mentioned seem to me to be no mere accidental variations, but 
probably racial, I have divided the series into two groups, the first of 
which is composed of the specmens C, D, I, and K, while the second 
includes G, L, J, and M. It will be noted that the skull of the 
primary interment belongs to the first group. The immature speci- 
mens F and H belong to this group. 
On each parietal bone of J, just above the parietal boss, a 
rounded opening occurs, that on the left side being 35 mm., and that 
on the right 20 mm. in diameter, the edges are bevelled inwards, 
and from them stellated fracture rays extend. There is little doubt 
that these holes are the result of sharp and quick blows delivered 
with considerable force, and would have been sufficient to have 
caused the death of the person. The skull was found by itself 
without the rest of the skeleton, in the middle of the grave below 
the centre of the barrow. 
Characters of the facial portion. — The broken condition of the 
facial portion of the skull renders it impossible to give anything like 
a satisfactory description of the characters of the face, but it appears 
to be longer in proportion to its breadth in the first group than in 
the second. As a rule the facial bones harmonise with those of the 
calvaria, except in L, in which the weakness of the former presents a 
marked contrast to to massiveness of the latter. 
The glabella and superciliary regions vary from being almost 
quite flat in some specimens to be moderately or even markedly 
