Observations upon sixteen ancient skulls found in excavations made on the Kirkhill, St. Andrews, 1860 / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

  • Davis, Joseph Barnard, 1801-1881.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: Observations upon sixteen ancient skulls found in excavations made on the Kirkhill, St. Andrews, 1860 / by Joseph Barnard Davis. 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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    Excavations made on the Kirkhill, St Andrews, 1860. By Joseph Barnard Davis, F.S.A., &c. (With a Table of Measurements). Communicated to the Literary and Philosophical Society, St Andrews. This series of fine skulls is of considerable interest from their unquestionable antiquity, the district in which they have been obtained, and from the peculiar aboriginal, or commonly named Celtic, air which pervades one section of them. This latter aspect it may be difficult to describe, but it will be at