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No traces of Corn have yet been observed in any of our 

 Neolithic barrows. 



These conclusions, however, cannot be extended to Europe. 

 In Switzerland, for instance, as far as our present evidence 

 goes, though it is far from being so full as that derived from 

 English sources, the introduction of bronze does not appear to 

 have been accompanied by any change of race. In Scandi- 

 navia, again, we have two classes of barrows corresponding to 

 those of this country. But though the Scandinavian long 

 barrows so remarkably resemble those of England, they were 

 erected by a very different race ; that of the English long 

 barrows being long-headed, while the constructors of the 

 Scandinavian chambered barrows were, on the contrary, almost 

 always round-headed. It is curious that in some barrows no 

 trace of a burial has been found. Some archaeologists suppose 

 that in these cases the body was buried without any vase, 

 ornament, or implement, and that it has wholly disappeared. 

 I should, however, rather be disposed to regard them as 

 memorial barrows. The common people were no doubt 

 interred without barrows. 



On the whole, then, the tumuli of Northern Europe appear 

 to range in point of time from the Neolithic down to post- 

 Eoman times. Since, however, they never contain remains 

 of the extinct mammalia, nor even of the reindeer, and as no 

 implements of the Palaeolithic type have ever been discovered 

 in them, we cannot refer any of them to the earlier Stone 

 Age. So far as England is concerned, the ante-Eoman barrows 

 appear to fall into two great groups the long barrows and 

 the round barrows. The long barrows are apparently the 

 earlier and belong exclusively to the Stone Age, as they also 

 do in Scandinavia. They contain no metal, but little pottery, 

 and were constructed by a long-headed race. Professor Eolles- 

 ton has called attention to the remarkable character afforded 

 by the lower jaw; the tumid horizontal segment corresponding 



