Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons.

  • Dale, Herbert D.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. In the catalogue one of them is de- scribed as having been obtained by a lady under very peculiar circumstances, though what these circumstances were the writer thought it wiser not to disclose. This Dr. Barnard Davis was probably the greatest expert on British skulls we have liad, as his huge collection and monu- mental works (‘ Crania Britannica ’ and ‘ Thes- aurus Craniorum ’) testify. He apparently never visited Hythe, but his examination of the four skulls he obtained is recorded, and is very valuable. He felt convinced from his experience with other skulls that they were of no very great antiquity, and suggests that they were probably skulls of Kentish people whose only great battle had been that against death. He was, hoAvever, specially struck Avith the short- ness and breadth of the four skidls he had, Avhich reminded him more of those of modern Germans than of Fuglish people. It must be remembered, though, that he Avas generalising on four specimens and not on the Avhole collection. In 18()0 Dr. Robei’t Knox read a paper on these skidls before the Ethnological Society, in