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Roman officer for the fact that they left their cards! in the 
shape of a horse-shoe and some pottery, to inform future 
Archzologists that they had already explored this portion of 
the Barrow. I further maintain that these Roman Archzolo- 
gists were guilty of removing the skulls and femurs. And 
what would be more natural? They found that the skulls 
were of a remarkable type—clearly defined dolicho-cephalic— 
and they no doubt presented them as great curiosities (just as 
we do now) to the museums of Glevum and Corinium! The 
Romans, however, were kind enough to leave the knee-pans 
(patellas.) and these numbering 14, show that there must, at 
any rate, have been originally seven skeletons in the chamber. 
Having completed our examination of the chamber, and 
being of course convinced that we were inside the surrounding 
walls, we next commenced a vigorous attack to bring them to 
light, nor were we unsuccessful. At a point 20 feet south of 
the main chamber we found the wall very irregular and difficult 
to recognise, so much so that one of the party suggested 
getting a dictionary, and turning to the word wall, read its 
proper definition; but, tracing out the line of our supposed 
wall on its proper curve to the main chamber, we were at once 
rewarded by finding it intact, leading in a gentle curve right 
up to the entrance stones. Alas! we had already passed 
through this wall in two places without seeing it, but moving a 
few stones in the exact line which our friend, 20 feet south, 
pointed to us, revealed the wall in good preservation. 
Reverting to the skeletons found near the exterior wall at 
the S.W. corner, some have supposed that they were subsequent 
interments of a much later date, but, looking to the decided 
dolicho-cephalic character of the skulls, and the sitting posture 
in which the skeletons were placed, I am inclined to agree with 
Professor Rotteston and Canon GREENWELL, that it was the 
custom to bury slaves and retainers as near as possible to those 
of their chiefs, and if they were unable to get leave to place 
them in the Barrow, they placed them as near as possible to 
the external wall, just as we found them. No less than twelve 
skeletons were found by me in this position at the West Tump 
