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Of the two hundred and seventy-eight bowl-shaped barrows, 

 seventy-one appear to have contained skeletons, and the remainder 

 (two hundred and seven) burnt bones. The " oval " form of the 

 bowl barrow is a diminutive kind of long barrow, and differs from 

 it in having a ditch all round it. An example of this kind of 

 barrow is No. 49. These barrows belong to the same people and 

 epoch as the round barrows, and especially those of the bowl 

 form. 



2. The bell-shaped barrow,' an elegant form of tumulus, moulded 

 with much accuracy and symmetry, in a sort of bell-shape. "^It is 

 surrounded by a circular ditch, from which part of the material of 

 the mound has been dug, and within this there is a flat circular area 

 on the same level as the surrounding turf. In the centre of this 



1 In Derbyshire, according to Mr. Bateman, almost all the tumuli are bowl- 

 shaped. In the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, the barrows, which are 

 numerous, are, with scarcely an exception, of the bowl-shape. In Scotland 

 there are no disc-shaped or bell-shaped barrows. The barrows in the Orkneys 

 are bowl-shaped and conoid. The conoid, few in number, are remarkable from 

 their size and great height in proportion to their base. The barrows near 

 Biroham, in Norfolk, are of the bell-shaped form. In Sussex, near Chichester, 

 are campaniform barrows, and on the Sussex down are disc-shaped barrows. 

 On the Mendip Hills the barrows are bowl-shaped, and on the noble ridge-way 

 between Dorchester and Weymouth hardly any other than bowl-shaped are to 

 be distinguished. Mr. Charles Warne says of the Dorset tumuli that.the pre- 

 vailing form is bowl-shaped, frequently surrounded by a shallow fosse. Mr, 

 Sydenham observes that "as the explorer advances in a north-eastern direction 

 towards the adjoining county of Wilts, the barrows present increasing evidence 

 of greater refinement and of a further advance in art." Dr. Ihurnam thinks 

 that he alludes chiefly to the richer character of theobjects found in the barrows 

 of Wiltshire, but may likewise refer to their frequently more elaborate external 

 form. In that very north-eastern corner of Dorsetshire to which Mr. Sydenham 

 refers, is the well-known group of tumuli, at Woodyates, many of bell and 

 disc-shape, which may compete for beauty with those in the neighbourhood of 

 Stonehenge itself. The evidence afforded by the distribution of the different 

 forms of barrows, goes far to prove that the Durotriges were an aboriginal or 

 primeval tribe, whose territory may have been encroached on, but was never 

 entirely over-run or subjugated by the immigrant Beljioe. [According to Dr. 

 Guest, the whole north-eastern angle of Dorsetshire, embracing the district of 

 Woodyates, two miles from the present boundary of Wiltshire, belonged, not to 

 the Durotriges, but to the Belgae.] From Mr. J. T. Blight we learn that bell- 

 shaped barrows are rare in Cornwall. (Condensed from Dr. Thurnam's paper, 

 in tho Archaeologia, vol. 43.) 

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