"In norma occipitalis the sagittal suture appears at the summit of a ridge whose parietal sides slope outwards forming with each other an angle of 138°, as far as the parietal eminences. From these the sides drop vertically down to the large mastoid processes. The intermastoid width at the tips of the processes is 115, but at the supramastoid crest is 148 (Fig. 9).
Fig. 9.
"In norma frontalis the conspicuous feature is the brow ridge. This gives a kind of superficial suggestion of a Neanderthaloid shape, but the broad and well arched frontal dispels the illusory likeness. The jugal processes jut out giving a biorbital breadth of 115 mm. while the least frontal width is 97 and the bistephanic expands to 125. There is a slight median ridge on the frontal ascending from the ophryon, at first narrow but expanding at the bregma to 50 mm. The surface of this elevated area is a little smoother than that of the bone on each side of it.
"The other long bones are mostly broken at their extremities. The femora are strong and platymeric. The postero-lateral rounded edge, which bears on its hinder face the insertion of the gluteus maximus, taken in connexion with the projection of the thin medial margin of the shaft below the tuberculum colli inferior causes the upper end of the shaft to appear flattened. The index of platymeria is ·55. The femoral length cannot have been less than 471 mm. The man was probably of middle stature, not a giant as was the Gristhorpe man. The tibiæ are also broken at their ends, they are eurycnemic (index ·80) with sharp sinuous shin and flat back, the length may have been between 335 and 340 mm. The humeri are also bones with strong muscular crests, and the ulnæ are smooth and long. The fibula was channelled. There is nothing in the bone-features which is inconsistent with the reference of the skull to the Brachycephalic Bronze Age race.
Fig. 10.
"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 Hill | Stonehenge (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).