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are mixed, and they may be termed large based square skulls. 

 Dr. Paine has described the Bown Hill Tumulus, near Stroud, 

 which contained the remains of five individuals, an infant 

 clavicle, and a rudely-made bone chisel or scoop. Uley Barrow 

 has been described by Dr. Thurnam ; and the Nymphsfield 

 Barrow, by Professor Buckman and Dr. Thurnam. The Long 

 Barrow upon the Crippetts, or Shurdington Hill, has been 

 disturbed, and its covering stones removed ; but the burial places, 

 have not been discovered. It is placed nearly east and west ; 

 is sixty-three yards long; thirty-four across its eastern or 

 wider part, and twenty across its smaller, or western end ; it 

 varies in height from twelve to twenty feet. 



Belas Knapp, a Long Barrow situated above Honeybee Wood, 

 near Winchcomb, is constructed of quarried stones, and the large 

 covering stones appear to have been procured from an adjoining 

 quarry. It is sixty-three yards long ; thirty-two across its 

 northern or higher and wider part, and twenty-three across its 

 southern, lower and narrower part ; it is fourteen feet high at 

 the stonework or platform, and gradually falls off to near a 

 level with the ground, on its southern and small end. The three 

 large stones on the western side may have been the covering of 

 graves near the middle of the Tumulus which had been removed 

 on a former occasion. 



The neat stone walling of Stonesfield Slate, gracefully 

 curved to form the heart-shaped entrance, with the huge 

 unhewn stones placed at its northern end to form a platform, 

 presented a most imposing appearance. A large jaw-bone ; a 

 long square skull; and bones of children, and infants, were 

 found upon, under and near the large flat stone, with a 

 bone pin, and a bone implement, with two small holes 

 drilled in its end ; and a beautifully cut flint saw, with a 

 knife-edge on the back ; boars' jaw-bones, teeth, and tusks ; 

 horses' teeth ; a bone of the roebuck ; bones of birds ; and the 

 upper part of a large radius which has been supposed to belong 

 to a lion or cave bear. Graves were found in the small end, on 

 its eastern side, formed of rough dry walling of quarried stones 

 for the sides and ends, and covered or roofed over with flat, 



