FOOTNOTES:
[195] Prichard's Natural Hist. of Man, 3d edit. p. 108.
[196] Ibid. p. 21.
[197] Natural History of Man, p. 186.
[198] On the Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia, by Professor Nillson of Lund.
[199] Natural History of Man, pp. 192, 193.
[200] Morton's Crania Americana, p. 16.
[201] Natural History of Man, p. 193.
[202] Archæol. Journal, vol. vi. pp. 27-39, 123-136.
[203] In taking these measurements I have been efficiently assisted by Mr. John Zaglas, anatomical assistant to Professor Goodsir of Edinburgh University, and by Dr. John Alexander Smith. Nearly all of the measurements have been repeated several times, and may therefore be received as accurate.
[204] Archæol. Scot. vol. iv. pp. 43, 44.
[205] MSS. Library S.A. Scot. Nov. 28, 1834.
[206] Two mortaria, obtained from this shaft, along with the iron spear-head, are now in the possession of John Miller, Esq. of Millfield, C.E. The spear-head will be found figured in a later chapter. The skull is now in the possession of John Alexander Smith, M.D., but it is his intention to deposit it in the Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries.
[207] Regist. Prior. S. Andree, p. 114. Lulach the Foolish is mentioned by Scottish chroniclers as reigning after Macbeth for four months, when he also was slain, and interred at Iona.—Annals of the Scots, A.D. 1058.
[208] Phrenological Journal, vol. vi. p. 144.
[209] Report of British Association for Advancement of Science. Seventeenth Session, 1848. P. 32.
[210] Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, vol. ii. p. 110.
[211] Archæol. Scotica, vol. iii. p. 44.
[212] MSS. Letter, Libr. Soc. Antiq. Scot., December 8, 1817.
[213] MSS. Letter, Mr. William Duncan, 13th December 1838.
[214] History of Mankind, vol. ii. p. 92.
[215] Description of tumular cemetery at Lamel Hill, Archæological Journal, vol. vi. p. 129.
[216] Archæological Journal, vol. iii. p. 113.
[217] Minute details, such as are given in the text, of the disposition of the arms and hands, are always open to some doubt. Unless where the cist is filled with earth, the bones must necessarily fall from their original position on the decay of the enveloping tissues; and when so filled, the earth has generally percolated into it long subsequent to the interment. Those who have frequently opened barrows must be well aware how difficult it is to ascertain with any certainty much more than the general relative position of the bones and skull.
[218] Jour. of Archæol. Association, vol. iv. p. 65.
[219] Torquay and Tor Directory, Aug. 14, 1850.
[220] "Discovered in the black mould certain rudely shaped pieces of oak, one of which was immediately shewn me by the finder. It was about the length and form of the human foot, and hollowed in the centre, not unlike a sandal." The name, it should be added, was only meant as a convenient distinctive appellation.
[221] In the original notes from which the memoir appears to have been compiled, the condition of this skeleton is thus described:—"Its teeth, most of which I collected, are with one exception sound and un-discoloured, that they belonged to a robust adult, they and the fragments of the skull and vertebræ abundantly testify. The front or incisor teeth are what are called double teeth."
[222] Cavern Researches, or Discoveries of Organic Remains, and of British and Roman Reliques in the Caves of Kent's Hole, Anstis Cove, &c. By the Rev. J. MacEnery, F.G.S.
[223] Archæological Journal, vol. i. p. 272.
PART II.
THE ARCHAIC OR BRONZE PERIOD.
"In those old days, one summer noon, an arm
Rose up from out the bosom of the lake,
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
Holding the sword Excalibur."
Morte D'Arthur.