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Skull, Norman period. Skull from a woman in her early twenties of the Norman period. In the nineteenth century the theory was that Saxons were long-headed (dolichocephalic) and Normans were round-headed (brachycephalic). However long-headedness and round-headedness are found to a greater or lesser degree in all individuals and can't be easily linked to specific groups.