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Pre-Historic Man in Lincolnshire. 295 
Burrtat Paces. 
Our preceding remark leads us very naturally to the subject 
of the burial places of these Neolithic People. They were buried 
in what are called tumuli or barrows—great mounds of earth, in 
which are mixed up broken pieces of domestic Pottery. Fragments 
from 20 vessels were found in one barrow, flints, and pebbles 
together with broken bones, their presence is not accidental. 
In stony districts there are some instances where the barrows are 
made of stones thrown together in heaps. ‘This custom of raising 
a mound over the dead is ancient, widespread and continuous to 
the present day, examples are to be seen in Egypt, India, 
America, and Britian. In its simple form it is seen in the Village 
Churchyard while in its greatest development it is seen in the 
magnificent Pyramids of I’gypt. 
* These barrows in Lincolnshire may be divided into two 
classes :— 
‘Tne Lone Barrow anp Tue Rounp Barrow, and they gener- 
ally indicate two classes of people. The Long Barrow is the oldest 
form of interment we have, and points to the earliest known 
inhabitants of our County, a race of people who are known to 
specialists as the Dolicho-Cephalic or long-headed people. “ The 
Long Barrows are like the Gang-graben of Scandinavia in which 
the dead are buried and not burnt,” so says Sir. J. Lubbock. 
One of these Long Barrows exists at Swinhope near Grimsby 
and there are others in different parts of the County, Wold 
Newton and elsewhere. With these interments no Bronze or 
metal implements have been found except when these Long 
Barrows have been used for what are called secondary interments 
in the Bronze age or later. ‘The date of these Long Barrows is by 
Canon Greenwell put down to tooo B.C., but he expresses the 
probability that they are much earlier, and that they are before 
the Bronze Age or the introduction of Bronze into this country. 
Other writers place the date of these Long Barrows much earlier 
fixing the introduction of Metal as early as 1800, or 2000 years, 
B.C., therefore the Long Barrows of Lincolnshire may be 5,000 
years old. 
