T26 ON SOME DIGGINGS NEAR BRASSINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. 



they appear to have been used as dwellings before they were 

 devoted to the dead. 



Fig. i8. 



In the mode of burial, the long barrow still further contrasts 

 with the later type. It is now universally acknowledged that the 

 chamber was used for successive interments (hence the need of easy 

 access), and there is a wide-spread opinion that these interments 



Fig. 19. 



were introduced as skeletons, having been previously buried or 

 exposed elsewhere ; in this respect the chamber had an analogy 

 to the modern Reliqiiaire of the Breton churchyards. So far 



