Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-02-13

little worn before the pieces were er,boddod
where they were found, They are not friable
Dut tough and hard. The piece of bone forming
part of the wall of the brain case is aytraordi
harHy thlck-as much a third of an inch
The lower jaw has two moIar teeth fthe FIRST
ana Second) IN place. They are worn very fat
on the surface The jawbone is chiefly remark
aOie LOT the breadth of the outstanding part or
rahius ana the shallowness of the notch S
(caled the sigmoid notchO between the articu-
lar process A and the process facing it 1.-THE
coronoid). In this the Sussex lower law is I'M
IKE modern man s, and approaches the heavy
ape-hke Jaw found in early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
l have roughly sketched the four lower jaws
IN the accompanying figure so that these points
can be compared. l made the sketch of the Sux-
sex jaw huTriedly, and it must not be regarded
as strictly accurate in measurements
The front part of 1t is to large extent broken
away, only its lower end marked X in the draw
Ing, being preserved. But this is a most i'm
portant bit. 1t is 1attened on the under side
and forms a fat. broad union Cor symphysis)
with the other half of the jaw (broken away
reaching as far back the g in the word Fig
This DR., Smith Woodward shows is unlike the
region in modern man, or even in the
Heidelberg jaw. 1t is almost exactly like the
union of the two halves of the jaw in the chin
panzee, and justifes the completion of the jaw
made by Mr. Frank Barlow the able modeler of
the Natural History Museum at DR.. Smith Wood
wards suggestion.
To fill up the space for teeth indicated by the
bone, 1t is necessary to introduce two large BIZ
cuspids a large canine, and two large front
teeth. bigger than those of a and like those
of a wellgrown chimpanzee.
The skull has been carefully completed" from
its fragments by DR. Smith Woodward and Mr.
Barlow and proves to have good straight fore
head, and is probably that of 1t does
not resemble the skulls of the Neanderthal race
and is in general characters closely similar TO
that of the inhabitants of this par of Sussex
1000 years ago.
The gravel in which this fragmentary skull
and javbone were found embedded proves to be
as remarkable as are the human remains them
selves The great valley known the Weald
of Sussex is bounded the north and south and
east and west by chalk downs. often as much as
600 feet or 700 feet above the level. The
chalk once stretched right over the Wea1d con-
tinuously. It has been gradually dissolved and
worn away by little streams sinking deeper and
deeper into it, and carrying the chalk in solu-
ton. and even the green sand below it,
away to the sea. The result is that the sands
and c1ays Of the great sub-cretaceous fresh-water
deposit known as 1.-THE Wealden" containing
mains of Iguanodon and other great reptiles,
exposed. The chalk and green sand which once
lay to the thickness of several hundred feet over
the present surface have been slowly carried
away but they still remain all around the edge
of this great valley Of erosion. The waters
which wore away the chalk over this area form
ed graveis containing the fints washed by them
from the chalk and they must have been lay
ing down these gravels at different levels with
cut cease from the earlier times when the chalk
was hardly worn at all, until the present day.
We find on the edge of the Weald valley, high
up on the top of chalk hills. what known as