Re: Skull landmark
Dear All, Thanks to a very clever suggestion from Kathi Fox (thanks so much) and to my previously sleeping neurones, I believe the term 'frontal ridge' used by Macewen is the anatomists' 'brow ridge' or 'supra orbital torus.' I've found that 'frontal ridge' and 'supra orbital torus' are sometimes used interchangeably by physical anthropologists to refer to this characteristic of hominid skulls, on many of which it is usually quite pronounced. All this fits with the description in the Ward Journal I obtained since asking the question. The Journal places the 'depressed fracture ... over the left temporo-parietal region' and in the handwritten description the word 'parietal' replaces the crossed out word 'frontal.' All this also fits with Macewen's 'slight depression ...on the left side about an inch behind the frontal ridge and running almost parallel with it .... about an inch to an inch and a half in length ... near to the angle of the frontal bone.' Many thanks once again Cheers, Mac