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long barrows. There is another long barrow (north-west and 

 south-east) to the south of the first two. These contain immense 

 cromlechs. The cromlech near Silbury Hill, Wilts, is at the east 

 end of a long barrow, (322 feet long, 78 feet wide, east and west.) 

 To the south-east of this last is a long barrow with a stone 

 chamber at its east end ; and still further south on Alton Down is 

 another. On Tidcombe Hill is a long barrow (188 feet long, 

 75 feet wide, north and south), with a stone chamber at its south 

 end. Uley barrow, Gloucestershire (120 feet long, 85 feet wide 

 and 10 feet high,) is a cairn of stones, and its chambers are con- 

 structed like those of Stoney Littleton near Bath. Near Rockley 

 is a small long barrow with a stone chamber at its east end. 

 Hubba's Low is a long barrow (160 feet long, east and west) with 

 two stone cists. At Luckington is a long barrow containing a cist. 

 The barrow called Lugbury, near Littleton Drew is a long barrow 

 (east and west 180 feet long, 90 feet wide) with a stone chamber 

 at its east end. At West Amesbury was a long barrow (now 

 destroyed) with a cist at one end. Kingsmill barrow at Monkton 

 near Avebury, was a long barrow, (now destroyed) containing a 

 cist. Stoney Littleton near Bath (107 feet long, 54 feet wide, 

 13 feet high, south-east and north-west) is a long barrow. This is 

 not so in Gruernsey, in Herm, and I believe in Jersey — the large 

 stone chambers of these islands are, or were, in circular barrows. 

 The barrow at New Grange, Ireland, is also circular, and has the 

 entrance to its chamber on the south-south-east side. (Higgins 

 Celt. Druids, p. xli.) 



With regard to the orientation of long barrows, Mr. Cunnington 

 remarks (Archseologia, vol. xv., p. 339), "By much the greater part 

 of our long barrows stand nearly east and west, having the east 

 end much wider than the other, and at this end we generally find 

 some skeletons. In these long barrows we find a greater resem- 

 blance to each other than in the circular, but from finding no urns, 

 arms, or trinkets of any kind, we are more at a loss for a clue to 

 their history than we are to the latter." Sir R. Colt Hoare like- 

 wise observes (Archaeologia, vol. xix., p. 43) that long barrows 

 point most frequently east and west. The barrow on Fairmile 



