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mounds to be found in Britain. They have never been known 
to contain any metal but, very rarely, gold ; but little pottery 
and no broad-headed (brachycephalic) skulls have ever been 
found in them. The long barrows of Britain appear, as 
regards the absence of metal in each, to be represented in 
Scandinavia and Western France by chambered mounds, both 
long and round in form, in which the dead are interred in 
chambers, not in cists. But while the British long-barrows 
contain only long-headed (dolicho-cephalic) skulls, the skulls 
of the Scandinavian mounds are mainly broad-headed 
(brachycephalic), and those of the barrows of Western France 
are of both forms, in almost equal numbers. 
Neolithic Britain appears to have been invaded by a people 
who buried their dead in round barrows, and who, though 
broad-headed, like the Scandinavians of the chambered 
mounds, were unlike them in being acquainted with the use 
of bronze. In these round barrows pottery is much more 
abundant than in the long barrows. On the whole the new¬ 
comers seem to have mingled peacefully with the Neolithic 
people, skulls of both races being found in the round barrows. 
These bronze-using people were very unlike the Neolithic 
race, being taller, stronger, and much rougher in appearance, 
with large frontal sinuses and supra-orbital ridges, prominent 
cheek-bones, and heavy jaws. So far as the evidence goes it 
seems to point towards the identity of this Bronze people 
with the Finnish or Ugrian stock. The late Prof. Rolleston 
remarks 6 that the “Briton of the round-barrow period all 
but certainly presented much the same combination of physical 
peculiarities as the modern Finn and Dane”; and he adds: 
—“The bronze-period Briton very closely resembles in his 
osteological remains the bracliycephalousDane of the Neolithic 
Period, and the likeness between these and some of the modern 
Danes has been noticed by Virchow,” &c. Mr. Elton 6 states 
that a Finnish idiom has been traced in several of the British 
(Celtic) languages ; and we learn from Prof. A. H. Keane 7 
5 * British Barrows,’ p. 680. 
6 ‘ Origins of English History,’ chap. vii. 
7 ‘ Europe.’ By E. W. Rudler and G. G. Chisholm. Edited by Sir A. 
C. Ramsay. Ethnological Appendix by A. H. Keane, p. 577. 
