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If further evidence be needed, it may be seen by 

 comparing and contrasting the contents of the long and 

 round tumuh. As types of the human bones found in 

 each, we may take those from the West Tump long 

 barrow, and from round tumuli at Hawling and elsewhere. 

 In a letter to Mr G. B. Witts, to whom belongs the 

 honour of having discovered the interesting mound near 

 Birdlip, Professor RoUeston says : " The bones from the 

 " West Tump are like all bones from similar barrows 

 " which have been through my hands, and in the following 

 " points : They belonged to a short-statured but long- 

 " headed race, who were, if we may judge at all from what 

 " we see of living men of the same osteological character, 

 " darkish in complexion and hair." 



Dr. Bird, describing the skeletons from round barrows 

 at Hawling and other places on the Central Cotteswolds 

 which he examined, says : " The bones of the extremities 

 " are large and strong, and the processes and ridges well 

 " marked, thus showing that they belonged to a tall, 

 " square-buih, muscular people."! These are exact des- 

 criptions of typical long and round barrow skeletons 

 throughout Britain. Professor Rolleston also notes the 

 not infrequent association in round barrows of skulls 

 of dolicho-cephalic and brachy-cephaHc types ; J and 

 Dr. Bird records that in a round earth tumulus at 

 Cubberley there was found "a small skull, long and 

 narrow," and " the stature of the individual was not more 

 than five feet."v^ The implements found in the round 

 tumuli often include metal as well as flint and stone. In 

 a round barrow at Hyde, near Stroud, a piece of bronze 



* Tr.ins. Bris. and Glos. Archaeo. Soc, Vol. v., p. 210. 

 t Cottes, Club Proc, Vol. vi„ p, 333. 

 X " British Barrows," p, 627, et seq. 

 § Cottes. Club Proc, Vol. vi., p. 332. 



