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DESCRIPTIONS OP CRANIA.
to have been more than 15 inches high *. The last barrow opened, called by the country people
the " Tw^in-barrow," from an appearance of having been formed of two originally, is that
in whicli we are most interested, as the repository of the cranium now depicted. It was of low
elevation; and within six inches of the surface the remains of a cinerary urn, rudely ornamented,
were found, which contained burnt bones, and also in its mouth a small well-made vase carefully
ornamented, an incense-oup, an inch and three quarters high t-
On carrying the excavation to a greater depth, a large flat stone was met with standing on
its edge, indicative of a cist which was formed of unhewn slabs, was uncovered, and which contained
two skeletons.
The skull of one of these skeletons, which we are permitted to introduce here by the complaisance
of Professor W. Clark, M.D,, F.R.S., of Cambridge, is that of a man considerably
advanced in life, of probably between 60 and 70 years of age. It borders very closely upon the
usual brachycephalic type, and is a good representative of the ancient British cranium, without
being so distinctly marked as others figured iu this work. The superciliary arches frown over
the face, the forehead is low, the frontal tubers prominent, and the whole calvarium tumid and
equable; the nose, the right bone of which seems to have been fractm-ed during life, appears to
have been short and prominent; and the face somewhat rugged, rather prognathous, and also of
good breadth ; the remaining teeth are greatly ground down, even to their central cavities. The
entire cranium is thin and liglit for that of a male. The dimensions will afford the means of
compai'ison with other specimens here described.
MEASUREMENTS.
Horizontal circumference .
Longitudinal diameter . .
Frontal Region.—Length
Breadth
Height
Parietal Region.—Length
Breadth
21-0 inches.
7-2
5-1
4-8
4-8
4-9
5-1
Parietal Region.—Height
Occipital Region.—Length
Breadth
Height
Intermastoid arch . . .
Pace.—^Length . . . .
Breadth . . . .
5-0 inches.
5-0 it
4'5 a
4-4 5J
15-0 35
5-0
5-2
•We believe this cranium may be regarded as the genuine relic of a man of the tribe of the
Durotriges, as (like our Purbeck specimen, PL 45) it is derived from a district at a considerable
distance from the borders to which the intrusive Belga; are considered to have penetrated.
Hence it is probably as true a representative of a British aborigine as any we have been able to
include in our series.
* Loe. cit. fig. 3.
t This incense-cup is figured in the paper already quoted,
and in the Archseological Journal, vol. xii. p. 193. In the Bide
of the cup are seen two holes, probably to give passage to one
of the cords or thongs for its suspension.
57.
Specimens of other Durotrigal urns, which differ much from
those of the more northern tribes, are depleted in the six plates
contained in the Description of the Deverel Barrow (opened
A.D. 1825), by W. A, Miles, 1820.
(J. B. D.)
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