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then tlie walls built up around tliem ; when bipeds however 

 attempt to scale them they usually come down Avith a run. On 

 this occasion two of this class had a peculiar facility of just 

 mounting the wall and quietly subsiding on the other side along 

 with the debris, in fact they might be described as good at stone 

 walls like the Celtic hunter ; a gap thus conveniently made (no 

 uncommon sight to the bucolic mind here), the rest soon followed 

 through and the barrows were mounted. Here the Vice-president 

 was again at home, and from the top of the central barrow, 

 learnedly descanted on barro \vs in general and these in particular. 

 " They Avere," he said, " all on the top of the Mendips and not on 

 the sides. Some enthusiastic antiquaries saw the serpentine 

 form in their arrangement, but he failed to make this clear to 

 his own mind after careful examination ; though he certainly 

 thought that an earthwork (of which more on some future 

 occasion) lately discovered by himself on the Mendips assumed 

 that form. This led him to think that possibly Mr. Phene's 

 idea might be correct. Mr. Skinner, of Camerton, had examined 

 and described all these barrows for Sir Richard Colt Hoare, and 

 from his investigations it appeared that all the interments were 

 by cremation ; urns, bronze implements and drinking cups were 

 dug up, and a record of the finds was contributed by himself 

 (Mr. Scarth) to the xvi. vol. of the ' Som. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Journal.' They consisted of two sets, as it were, close together, 

 called respectively, ' Priddy nine-barrows' and ' Priddy eight- 

 barrows.'" After inhaling the pure air and enjoying the fine vieAV, 

 embracing Glastonbury Tor on one side and the Welsh mountains 

 and the " Severn sea" on the other, a long ramble was made over 

 common gorse land riddled with " old men's" diggings for calamine 

 and ochre, in search of some circles called " castles ; " at length they 

 were found to the north of the barrows, five or six in number, 

 and of considerable diameter, some 500 feet. Were they small 

 Stonehenges and Aveburys without the stones, or merely cattle 

 enclosures] Who shall tell? The antiquaries had their field 



