ON A CRANIUM AND OTHER HUMAN BONES 
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For Pearson’s plan I have measured the ear- height at 
120 ; but having no special apparatus for the purpose, 
and not being confident of accuracy in this difficult bit 
of mensuration, I put down the figure 1455 with some 
doubt. As all the other methods agree almost exactly, 
I think we may safely put the capacity at 1490 c.c., 
on Flower’s standard, which is a very fair magnitude. 
The vertical aspect of the cranium is a very regular, 
long oval ; the lateral aspect shows moderate post-parietal 
fiattening and capsulation, or ahsdtzung ; it shows also 
a prominent glabella, a prominent, probably aquiline 
nose, and a slight degree of prognathism. The whole 
aspect reminds me of the Sion t 3 rpe, considerably length- 
ened ; the Sion type of His and Rutimeyer was probably 
true Helvetian ; but Ranke thinks it predominates in the 
modern Franconians. 
Other points to be taken into account are : The presence 
of iron in the form of a bridle-bit — that might indicate 
the late Keltic or any later period ; the parallel position 
of the bodies, reminding one of the Rowgrave or late 
Pagan-Teutonic period ; the orientated position, perhaps 
early Christian ; the pottery, which I cannot date, though 
some expert may yet do so. 
My own diagnosis, or rather conjecture, is that we have 
here the remains of a Saxon of the earliest Christian period, 
that is, of the former Jialf of the seventh century, and that 
he was of mixed blood, his mother or grandmother having 
been a British or Welsh woman more or less of the ancient 
“ bronze t 3 rpe.” He was of rather sturdy build, but his 
stature was probably not more than 1660 millimeters, or 
say five feet five inches and a half. 
Note. — The Bagprize skull was found at Kingston hill farm, 
Bagprize, about six miles from Abingdon in Berkshire. — H. Bolton, 
