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312 ). The nose was aquiline, and the forehead low as compared with that of the round skulls (Fig. 111) to be described presently. Skulls possessed of these characters have been described by Huxley and Wilson from many places in Scotland, and they occur in Neolithic tombs in England, Wales, and Ireland, under circumstances which render it impossible to doubt that the whole of the British Isles was inhabited from the beginning to the close of the Neolithic age by the same small race in the same stage of culture. In Scotland it is identical with the people possessed of (kumbecephalic) boat-shaped skulls of Prof. Wilson, and in Ireland by those from chambered tombs, peat-mosses, and river-deposits, described by Prof. Huxley as belonging to the river-bed type, and by Dr. Thurnam to that of the "long barrows."

In Figures 110, 111, we have given outlines of the two typical forms of skull, the long being obtained from the chambered tomb at Rodmarton, and the broad