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depression above ; high cheek-bones, and large angular lower- 

 jaw. The bones of the arms were long and strong : the sacrum 

 was spongy, and in a diseased state. The flint flakes, were 

 about fourteen altogether ; the largest were in the red earth on 

 the base of the Tumulus. The Tumulus measured twenty-six 

 yards in one direction, and twenty-three in the other, and the 

 centre was raised from eight to ten feet, 



EOUND TUMULUS, 



Near Chedworth Roman Villa. 



This contained a Kist of flat stones for sides, ends and 

 covering, about three feet by two, and contained a rude 

 earthenware vessel with burned human bones of a female ; the 

 urn and burned bones are preserved at Chedworth Villa. 



Round Tumuli are common on Cleeve Hill, and most parts of 

 the Cotteswolds. I think that the Race who used this form of 

 burial, existed through the Long Barrow period, up to the 

 Roman or historic period. 



III. LONG BARROWS. 



The Long Tumuli are consti-ucted in a superior manner, as 

 compared with the Round Tumuli : they are formed of loose 

 surface or quarried stones, having dry walling running through 

 or across them in different directions, to support and maintain 

 their form. They gradually rise from the surface of the ground, 

 at their smallest end, to several feet above it at their large and 

 wider end, where there are dry walling entrances, and large 

 stones placed in the form of platforms or altars. 



The skulls found in the Vaults and Kists of the Long Tumuli, 

 are more square and higher vaulted than those of the Round. 

 The forehead being higher and wider, the frontal sinuses and 

 orbital ridges being much less prominent, and the depression 

 above those parts being very slight, much less so than in the 

 long, large, oval heads, of the Round Tumuli, with which they 



