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and a leaf-shaped arrow-point were unearthed ; '■■ in one at 

 Snowshill some l)ronze spear-heads and a bronze pin, 

 with a beautifully worked implement of stone, having a 

 hammer-head and cutting edge;t and in one at Oddington 

 some spear-heads and a fil)ula of copper. t J^esides the 

 diflerences presented by the contents of the two types of 

 barrows in the craniology, the skeletons and the non- 

 metallic and metallic character of the implements, there 

 is a third distinguishing characteristic to be noted. In all 

 the long barrows that have been opened, over the (^ottes- 

 wolds generally, burial has been l)y inhumation only. In 

 the round barrows, on the other hand, there is abundant 

 evidence that the prevailing practice in the deposition 

 of the dead was burial after cremation, the body so 

 treated being sometimes placed in an urn, sometimes in a 

 small stone cist, covered with earth, and sometimes 

 in the ground without any protection whatever. 



STONE CIRCLES 



At two places on the Mid-Cotteswold escarpment 

 there are what appear to he portions of stone circles. 

 On the south side of the small valley between Leck- 

 hampton Hill and the Crippetts are several masses of 

 rock belonging to one of the lower beds of the Inferior 

 Oolite. Some of these masses are so placed as to seem 

 to form portions of two distinct circles, and on the 

 six-inch ordnance survey map they are so described. 

 The hill-slope bears evidence of landslips, and it may be 

 that the position of the stones is due to accident. On 

 the other hand, there is some evidence that their ])osition 

 is due to design. Old people residing near assert that 



* Cottes. Cliili Proc, Vol. v., p. 283. 



I Archneo. H.indbook of Gloucestershire, p. 99. 



!j! Fosbrooke's Gloucestershire, p. 406. 



