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NOTE ON A LONG BARROW, NEAR BISLEY 



BY 

 A. E. W. PAINE 



{Read March 12th, 191 2) 



In the autumn of 1863, a long Barrow near Bisley was 

 opened by my father, Dr W. H. Paine, who was assisted by 

 Dr Henry Bird. The Barrow was situated rather less than 

 half a mile to the south-east of the village, and was close to 

 the road leading to Water Lane. It is now entirely des- 

 troyed. Dr Paine and Dr Bird appear to have rent the 

 notes they made on the opening to Dr Thurman,^ so unfor- 

 tunately I am unable to describe the Barrow fully or to state 

 whether anything else was found besides the few bones that 

 are now in my possession. These bones were labelled by 

 Dr Paine, but I never saw them during his lifetime or heard 

 any account of the Barrow from him. 



Dr Thurman in his paper on " British Barrows'"' says : — 



" In addition to the above [that is, a description of barrows opened 

 by himself], there are other chambered long barrows in this part of 

 England of the opening of which we have only meagre and imperfect 

 accounts, or none at all." 



He then gives a list of those opened in Somerset, Wilt- 

 shire and Gloucestershire, and continues — 



" In this county (Glos.), also on the Cotswolds, so prolific in the 

 chambered tumuli — is that of Ablington, of the partial exploration of 

 which the Rev. S. Lysons has given an account, and that at Bisley, 

 opened by Dr W. H. Paine of Stroud in 1863, for a report of which, not 

 published, I am indebted to a brief note from Dr H. Bird." 



In the table that he gives summarising the results of the 

 explorations of chambered tumuli, is the following — ^ 



I Archaeologia, vol. xlii., p. 203. 2 Ibid., p. 201. 3 Ibid., p. 203. 



