Notes on the Fenland; with A Description of the Shippea ManHughes, Thomas McKenny
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Notes on the Fenland; with A Description of the Shippea Man
Hughes, Thomas McKenny
Geology -- England -- Bedford Level
"In the following Table are recorded the measurements of the different
regions. The two crania which I have selected to compare with it are
(1) a Round-barrow skull from near Stonehenge (No. 179 in our
Collection) and (2) the Gristhorpe skull, to both of which it bears a
very strong family likeness.
Shippea Stonehenge
Hill (No. 179) Gristhorpe
Maximal length 194 185 192
Maximal breadth 153 153 156
Auricular height 135 132 133
Biorbital width 115 112 117
Bistephanic width 128 132 133
Least frontal width 97 103 106
Biasterial 120 127 125
Auriculo-glabellar radius 116 113 114
Auriculo-ophryal radius 113 111 105
Auriculo-metopic radius 134 127 124
Auriculo-bregmatic radius 137 132 134
Auriculo-lambdoid radius 104 102 115
Length and breadth index 78·87 82·7 81·25
"The resemblance to the two Round-barrow skulls of the Bronze Age is
too great to be accidental, so we may regard this as a representative
of that race, possibly at an earlier stage than the typical form of
which the two selected specimens are examples (Fig. 10).
"The mandible also resembles that of the Gristhorpe skull in general
shape of angle and prominence of chin.
"The measurements are as appended:
Shippea Stonehenge
Hill (No. 179) Gristhorpe
Condylo mental length 131 -- 130
Gonio mental length 100 -- 99
Bigoniac 115 -- 116
Bicondylar 139 -- 141
Chin height 32 -- 33"
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