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works are met with from time to time in these camps merely 

 tends to prove their occupation, but not their original construc- 

 tion by that people. 



These defensive works once made would be used during times 

 of internal wars, or foreign invasions. A local tradition points 

 to the hollow between the last two parallel mounds east of the 

 town of Minchinhampton as the scene of a bloody encounter 

 between Saxon and Dane, and the locahty is known as " Woeful 

 Dane Bottom." 



On the Ordnance Map the positions of some Tumuli are 

 marked, but many are omitted and the distinction of long and 

 circular barrows is not indicated. The evidences afforded by 

 the relics found in these tumuli as to the date of their construc- 

 tion are extremely scant. The oval barrows, according to the 

 valuable researches of Dr. Thurnam were the work of a race of 

 people differing decidedly from the constructors of the circular 

 barrows, in the form of the skull and as far as negative evidence 

 proves, in their ignorance of the use of metals. The two peoples 

 may have been co-temj)orary, as amongst modern savages instances 

 occur of tribes occupying the same countries, and yet differing 

 in race, physical condition, and custom. 



The chief evidence of the occupation of the Cotteswolds by 

 a " pre-historic " race consists in the flint implements scattered 

 so widely over their surface. These indicate a condition of 

 existence of which no record has reached us, and serve to point 

 out by the analogies of modern savage races, the condition of the 

 Aboriginal inhabitants of our hills. From the fact that flint 

 implements, such as those drawn on plate IV., figs. 1, 2, and 3, 

 are found in round barrows, accompanied by bronze and iron, and 

 evidently intentionally deposited near the remains of the dead, 

 we may infer that from custom or superstitious association 

 these stone implements were valued even after the knowledge of 

 working metals had been acquired. 



