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is raised up and formed into shape, with small surface stones ; 

 sometimes they are covered with a layer of earth, a few inches 

 in thickness. The circle may be raised four or five feet in its 

 highest part, and may be from twelve to twenty-six yards across. 

 The Kist may contain the bones of one, or many human 

 bodies, of different ages and both sexes ; also flint-flakes, and 

 black rude pottery. Among the stones of the Tumulus, some 

 distance from the Kist, human bones, flint-flakes, pottery, lumps 

 of flint, round pieces of Bredon gravel, horses, cattle, and pigs' 

 bones and teeth, shank bones of horses, and cattle, divided 

 vertically, calcined human bones, stones, and charcoal may be 

 found. 



The bones contained in the Round Tumuli appear to be the 

 remains of a people with long, oval skulls, large bases, and low 

 vaults, wide behind, but narrow, low and contracted in front, 

 with prominent frontal ridges, large frontal sinuses and a 

 depression above those parts in the frontal bone ; high cheek- 

 bones, and large angular lower jaws. The bones of the 

 extremities are large and strong, and the processes and ridges 

 well marked, thus shewing that they belonged to a tall, square- 

 built muscular people ; some of the bones had been fractured, 

 and again united; a humerus in Dry Heathfield Tumulus, 

 and a parietal bone from the Waste Tumulus. Many of the 

 thigh-bones were peculiar in having a wide, flat, oblong space, 

 below the trochanter major. The persons to whom these 

 thigh-bones belonged differed in height from five feet five 

 inches to six feet and upwards. 



TUMULUS AT HALLINGS. 



At Hallings, in a field called the Waste, near Rockhampton, 

 there are several Round Tumuli : one was some years since 

 removed to get stone for mending the roads ; it contained a 

 Kist in the centre, with remains of seven human beings, of both 

 sexes — some were of children. The Tumulus was twenty yards 

 in diameter, it was covered with small surface stones and earth, 

 and was raised about five feet in the centre above the level of the 



