210 DAVIS: RELATIVE AGE 01" THE REMAINS OF MAN IN YORKSHIRE. 
whicli would make the face soft in its expression. The forehead is 
of an average heighth and breadth, rather higher than broad however 
in its general proportions. The head is long, as indeed the term 
applied to it implies, and has the parietal bosses quite rounded off. 
The occiptal region of the skull is prolonged in a marked degree, and 
adds much to the lengthened appearance of the head. Taken as a 
wdiole, it may be said that regularity and smoothness of outline is the 
main characteristic ; and that those prominences are wanting which 
must have given such a harshness of feature to the brachy-cephalic 
head. The latter differs, in almost every particular, from that just 
described. The lower jaw is massive, and in a certain degi'ee square 
at the chin. The malar bones are prominent ; and the supraciliary 
ridges strongly and early marked: thus affording in the rugged and 
fierce expression which the face must have presented, a strong contrast 
to the pleasing appearance of the other people. The forehead is broad 
though not low. The head is remarkably short and square. The 
occiput is so much flattened as to have suggested to some that it is 
due to an artificial process, such as the habit of placing the infant 
with its head resting at the back against a board or some other con- 
trivance; or to the child having been carried for long during the 
period of infancy. The skull of both types, is capacious and the 
different parts are well balanced ; nor is there anything in it to lead 
to the belief that either people was wanting in mental power." 
The long-headed people where the earliest of which there is any 
kind of record known at present. They lived peaceably; followed 
agricultural pursuits, and had herds of oxen and other domesticated 
animals. They were probably existing at the same time as the earlier 
inhabitants of the caves to the west. They appear to have had 
social communities, and were regulated by some kind of laws ; had 
chiefs whom they recognised as leaders, bat altogether lived a quiet 
and sedentary life. Their peace was interrupted, perhaps destroyed, 
by the advent of the roundheads, who may have come across the 
North Sen, but of whose origin we have no distinct information. 
There appears every probability, however, that they were a warlike 
people, and that they were the builders of the entrenchments com- 
mencing with the Danes'-dylcQ across Flambro' Head, and extending 
