1905 - 6 .] Stone Cist containing Skeleton and Urn. 293 
is unusual, it occurs with two beakers of the same type from Court 
Hill, Dairy, Ayrshire, from Largie, Poltalloch, Argyleshire, and on 
a beaker of type y, i.e. low-brimmed cup, from Collessie, Fife. The 
tallest on record is from Somersham, Hunts, and measures as 
much as 27 - 4 cm. The clay is fairly well levigated, and contains 
only a few small stones. Externally the fragment presents a 
reddish-brown colour. The fracture shows on the outside half 
of the thickness a reddish-chocolate colour, which becomes darker 
and blacker towards the inner surface of the vessel. The outside 
surface is fairly smooth. 
As is usual in this class of ceramic, most of the ornament is 
executed with a narrow instrument, such as a notched slip of 
hone or wood, leaving small rectangular holes, separated by a 
narrow septum. But, owing to the shortness of the lines, the 
horizontal line-chevron fringe bordering each ornamented band is 
made with a blunt point. The ornament is quite normally 
disposed in horizontal bands, alternately plain and ornamented. 
Here we have two of the former and three of the latter. In the 
central band the principal motive of ornament consists of two 
parallel line-chevrons, spaced, with their opposite angles united 
by vertical lines. This motive seems to be a special northern 
development, as it is found from Boss-shire to Staffordshire, but 
not further south. The only new motive is the vertical fringe of 
short horizontal strokes |=E H| which breaks the uniformity and 
continuity of the belt of ornament of two of the ornamented 
bands. A similar fringe is found on a beaker of type /3 from 
Gian yr Avon, Denbighshire. 
So far as I judge, this fragment belonged to a beaker that may 
be placed about the middle of the Beaker period. 
Report on Two Crania, submitted by Dr B. Munro for 
Examination. By D. J. Cunningham, M.D., F.B.S. 
The specimens which have been placed in my hands by Dr Munro 
may be respectively designated the Rutland cranium and the Largs 
cranium, from the districts in which they were found. They 
belong to two very different types — the Rutland specimen being 
long, narrow, with prominent brows and sloping forehead, whilst 
