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REPORT ON TWO SKULLS 
region, raise some suspicion of hydrokephalus. The 
general form approximates that of a sphere whereof two 
portions have been cut off by sectors ; in the occipital 
aspect this appearance is very striking ; the vertical aspect 
is very broadly ovo-elliptic ; the index, if calculated in the 
usual way, is 86, but if on the ophryal length, is not less 
than 88*6. The zygomata are gone, and were probably 
very feeble, and not visible in the norma verticalis. 
I am told that the geological evidence for considerable 
antiquity is stronger in this case than in that of the other 
skull. So far as the form enables one to form an opinion, 
I am disposed to see in this one also a specimen of the 
“ bronze ” race or type. I prefer the term “ Bronze ” 
to that of Goydelic, or to any term which ties us down to 
an unproved, however probable, historical theory. 
It may, however, be worth while to note hqw often it 
has happened that in prehistoric finds of presumably very 
early date a single extreme brachykephal has been found 
associated with pronounced dolichokephals. 
The capacity of this skull is, as aforesaid, large for a 
female specimen. It cannot be ascertained by actual 
measurement. By various methods of estimation it 
comes out as follows — 
Pearson & 0. VVelcker. Do.,D. Pelletier. Manouvrier. Beddoe. 
Lee. 
If male . 1386 1391 1419 1392 1408 1452 
If female . 1370 ? ? 1450 1447 1500 
In this case I have no doubt that my own method gives 
the most satisfactory, as it does the largest, result. The 
spheroidal compact form, the smooth exterior, the thin- 
ness of the bones, all tend unduly to reduce the bases of 
computation. 
Note as to the occurrence of the skulls, by Herbert Bolton, 
F.R.S.E., curator of the Bristol Museum : — 
The Avonmouth skull was found at a depth of 24| feet below 
Ordnance Datum, and 46 feet below the surface. The deposi 
