342 On Long Barrows and Round Barrows. 
for use as sling-stones) and a large stone bead.” This excavation 
seems to have been made near the centre of the barrow, before Mr. 
Cunnington had ascertained that the interments in Long Barrows 
are almost always at the larger, generally the eastern, end. "© Ata 
subsequent period, Mr. Cunnington employed his men for several 
days in examining the large end of this barrow, but he only dis- 
covered the remains of three skeletons (a secondary interment) near 
the top.”! In 1866, Dr. Thurnam’s “working-party made two 
large openings at the extreme east end, and in the more westerly of 
the two, on the natural level, at a depth of 84 ft. and only one or 
two feet from the point where Mr. Cunnington’s excavations appear 
to have been left off, was a heap of imperfectly burnt, or rather 
charred, human bones, as many, perhaps, as would be left by the 
incineration of one or at the most, two adult bodies. Careful search 
was made for an entire unburnt skeleton or skeletons, but without 
success.” ; 
With the primary interments in Long Barrows no weapons or 
implements of bronze or other metal are ever found, but oc- 
casionally leaf-shaped arrow-heads and other implements of flint. 
Long Barrows belong essentially to the Stone Age of this country,and 
are to be regarded as the very earliest of our sepulchral monuments. 
The Long Barrows described by Dr. Thurnam were of the simple, 
unchambered sort, such as are alone found in South Wiltshire, and 
on the chalk downs of other parts of the South of England. In 
North Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, however, where we have either 
Sarsen stones of large size on the surface, or else quarries of oolitic 
stone, Long Barrows in other respects similar to those of South Wilts, 
but with Chambers built up under their broad ends, are met with. In 
them are found numerous skeletons, many with the skull cleft, ranged 
around the walls of the chambers, in the crouching attitude. Here 
also is the same absence of metallic implements, but the presence 
of those of stone. The striking analogy of these Chambered Long 
Barrows to the so-called “Giant Chambers” of the Scandinavian 
countries was pointed out. 
1 Ancient Wilts. Vol. i., p. 59. 
