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Either they are the almost unmixed descendants of the long¬ 
headed Britons cf the stone-using period—which, if I am not 
mistaken, Canon Greenwell hinted at in his able address given 
at the “ Danes’ Graves” on the day of opening—or they belong 
to invaders of a comparatively recent period—say a few 
centuries before the Roman occupation of this country—who 
settled in little communities along the east coast. To this 
latter view the writer is rather inclined, as there seems to be, 
judging from our present knowledge, a great leap in the 
advance in ornamentation and the art of working in metals 
between the barrows containing bronze only and those which 
contain iron, 1 rather than a gradual transition from one stage 
of culture to the other. Besides, it is difficult to conceive 
how, after passing through the lengthy bronze period, and 
existing along with the predominating round-headed people of 
that epoch, a community with such a distinctively opposite 
cranial feature could have survived almost unmixed to so late 
a time. But then again, if these dolicocephalic people were 
comparatively recent settlers, whence did they come ? Were 
they from Gaul or Phoenicia ? And are we acquainted with 
any country that was able to supply this nearly unmixed 
cranial type ? Only further research can, and undoubtedly 
will, ultimately settle this matter. 
1 The marked prevalence of the long type of skull found, I believe, in ail the 
graveyards of the early iron period supports the latter view. 
