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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
with rather large heads in which the width was about 
75 per cent, of the length. What were people in other 
parts of England like at this period — the later part of 
the Neolithic age ? So far as we know they were all 
long-headed, not very different in size and form from 
those found at Coldrum. The people found in the long 
barrows of the Neolithic period appear to belong to the 
same race as the Coldrum individuals. The skull 1 wish 
to cite as typical of the Englishmen of the Neolithic 
period is that known as the Trent or Muskham skull. 
It was found in an ancient bed of the Trent, at Muskham, 
near Newark, Nottingham, buried naturally in deposits 
TRENT. 
Fig. 5. — Side and front views of the Trent cranium. 
laid down by the river. The objects found with it 
show that it is of Neolithic age. Huxley ^ described it 
in 1862, and made it the representative of what he named 
the " river-bed type " (fig. 5). The earliest Neolithic 
skulls we know of in England are of this type ; the 
Coldrum and long-barrow skulls are merely variants 
of the type. The " river-bed " form of head is not 
confined to Neolithic England. In an adjoining figure I 
have placed corresponding drawings of a skull from 
Malta — from that subterranean sepulchre of the Neo- 
lithic age, the Hypogeum at Hal-Saflieni — which Dr 
' Prehistoric Remains of Caithness, by Samuel Laing. Williams & 
Norgate, 1866. The Muskham or Trent skull is in the museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons, England. 
