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sizes, and of different forms. It may be well, therefore, to give the 

 result of Dr. Thurnam's careful investigations into, and classification 

 of, the barrows in this part of the country (Archseologia, vol. 

 43) . " There is nothing," he says, " to object to in Sir R. C. Hoare'a 

 designations o£ the three first of his primary forms of the long, bowl- 

 and bell-shaped barrow. That of Druid-barrow, which he adopts 

 from Stukeley, and by which he designates his fourth form, is, 

 however, very objectionable ; and, as involving a hypothesis without 

 probable basis, ought to be abolished. I have for several years past 

 designated this species of barrow by the term disc-shaped, which 

 appears sufl5ciently to characterise the form, which is that of a cir- 

 cular shallow dish inverted. Adopting these four primary forms, 

 with their really important modifications, I propose further to classify 

 the barrows of this part of England according to the following 

 scheme : — 



Classification of Baerows. 

 I. — Long Barrows. (Stone Period.) 



1. Simple or unchambered long barrows. 



2. Chambered long barrows. 



II. — Round Barrows. (Bronze Period.) 



a. Simple bowl-barrows. 

 , -n , 1 J , } b- Trenched. 



l.Bowl-shaped barrows, j ,. Composite bowl or oval 



barrows. 

 Simple bell. 

 2. Bell-shaped barrows. ^ b. Twin. 



Triple. 



been found in them. This appears to have been the case in a barrow at Morvah, 

 Cornwall, in the stone cist of which, with the urn, were found coins of the 

 Constantine period. (Na;nia Cornub., p. 251.) "It was no doubt " says Dr. 

 Thurnam, "in North Britain, beyond the wall, and in the wild and remote 

 districts of Wales and Cornwall, that barrow burial prevailed furthest down 

 into the Roman period." "Mr. Whittaker is of opinion," says Sir Richard 

 Hoare, " that the custom of burying under tumuli survived the introduction of 

 Christianity, and continued beyond the departure of the Romans ; " but Sir R. 

 Hoare himself, from the researches he had made, " was induced to think that 

 few or any interments in barrows took place after the Roman invasion." As a 

 rule, Dr. Thurnam considered, that Roman coins found in tumuli might be 

 taken to indicate the time when, or subsequent to which, some rifling of the 

 barrow or some secondary interment has taken place. 



