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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
the island. This skull is exactly similar in type to those 
recovered from the cists, and it is safest to presume that 
it reached the depth at which it was found in a fall of 
earth from the level of the tombs. 
On the occasion of my visit to Jersey, three years ago, 
I had an opportunity of making a close examination of 
the skulls from the cists at La Motte.^ All are of the 
river-bed type. In fig. 15, 1 have placed one of them — 
that of a woman, aged about thirty — within the standard 
frame of lines employed in the case of other Neolithic 
skulls. In size and shape the Jersey specimen differs 
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very little from the skull from the monument at Coldrum, 
represented in fig. 4 (p. 10). In the Neolithic period, 
that human stock, to which the name " Mediterranean " 
has been given, had reached Jersey as well as England. 
In the early part of the Neolithic period the people with 
the river-bed type of head could reach both Jersey and 
England by land. 
We are now to recross the English Channel to take up 
the study of Neolithic man in Cornwall — the extreme 
south-west corner of England. Jersey and Cornwall 
have much in common. On the uplands of both, 
' See Bulletin de la Socie'te Jersiaise^ igijj vol. xxxviii. p. 306. 
