on the Marlborough Downs. 



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is by the courtesy of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries that 

 I am enabled to reproduce his illustrations. 



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I Ground level. 

 A. Position of Chisel. 



Back. Section. Front. 



Bone Chisel (actual size). 



The " Fallen Kistvaen " lies about three quarters of a mile due 

 south of that in Temple Bottom, and owing to the heath and furze 

 which abound thereabouts is not easily discovered. Parts of the 

 mound which once covered it, and some of the stones which ap- 

 parently surrounded it, are still to be seen. When I first became 

 acquainted with it — some twenty-five years ago — the covering stone, 

 a very massive slab, was entire, but one or more of its supporters 

 having given way, it had slid from its original position, and rested 

 on the ground, still, however, in part upheld by some of its props j 

 and thus, though fallen, presenting an interesting specimen of the 

 kistvaen. When, however, I visited it about ten years since (and 

 I generally do visit it annually), judge of my dismay at finding the 



