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of two of the side cliaiiibors ; tliis liaving been discovered by two 

 members of tlie Field Club, and an application made for permission 

 to restore it, the stones were replaced as formerly, and the exact 

 form of the barrow remained uninjured. Mr. Scarth hoped that 

 this might be done to the tumulus at Uleybury, which had been to 

 all appearance wantonly injured. The Club had, however, called 

 attention to its present ruined condition and pleaded for its preser- 

 vation. It was much to be regretted that any of these ancient 

 sepulchres of our British or Celtic forefathers should be wantonly 

 destroyed. They were now standing upon a spot where many 

 successive periods of history were distinctly marked. There was 

 this baiTow, which probably existed before the Romans set foot in 

 this island. There were in the field called Wellow Hayes, on the 

 north side of the brook which runs through the valley, and almost 

 directly opposite to this tumulus, the foundations and floors of a 

 very interesting Roman villa, which had been uncovered when the 

 Somersetshire Archa;ological Society visited this spot, and which 

 had all been carefully drawn and described by the Rev. J. Skinner, 

 and an abbi'eviated account of them would be found in " Aquae 

 Solis." Then there was the handsome mediaeval church which they 

 had just visited, marking a third period in our national history, 

 and its gi'owth into a great and settled nation, with all the blessings 

 of Christian ordinances. After instancing other tumuli, and 

 especially the one which was known to have existed at Nemjsnet in 

 the parish of Butcombe (which was not far from his own parish of 

 Wrington), Mr. Scarth described how that tumulus had been 

 wantonly destroyed for the sake of the limestone of which it was 

 composed. Happily an account of it, together with drawings, had 

 been preserved. In this latter one the chambers run entirely through 

 the whole length of the baiTow, but at Wellow they only penetrated 

 about half way, while at Uleybury they were clustered about the 

 entrance. Having alluded to the researches of the late Sir R. C. 

 Hoai-e and Mr. Skinner in past times ; and in recent, Dr. Thuruam, 

 among the Wilts barrows, the Rev. Samuel Lysons, in Gloucestei-- 

 shire, and the indefatigable labours of Canon Greenwell in the north 

 of England, by whom the results of his researches were carefully 

 classified and arranged, and who had obtained much information 



