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side. The passage is five feet wide towards the south- 

 east end, and four feet three inches wide towards the 

 north-west ; the extreme length of the passage being twenty- 

 seven feet. 



The first chamber on the west (No. i in the Plan) measures 

 eight feet four inches by six feet between the stones. Chamber 

 No. 2 measures six feet four inches by probably six feet. 

 Chamber No. 3 somewhat different in ihape, measured six 

 feet across in each direction ; and Chamber No. 4 measured 

 nine feet six inches by seven feet. 



The stone marked A, on plan, is five feet above the 

 original surface of the ground, being three feet long and sixteen 

 inches wide ; some of the other stones are larger, and of the 

 same thickness, but they do not stand so high. Only those 

 stones standing in their original position, twenty-two in 

 number, are shaded on the plan ; the remaining four are 

 shown by dotted lines, arranged probably near their original 

 positions. During the excavation it was found that Chamber 

 No. 4 had never been disturbed though the other three had 

 been cleared of their contents ; a careful examination was 

 therefore made of it. Under a large flat stone, lying about 

 twelve inches above the original surface of the ground, were 

 found portions of two human skeletons in a contracted 

 position ; the skulls, which appeared to be lying towards the 

 west, were broken into very small pieces, and being in- 

 complete cannot be reconstructed ; only one portion of a 

 jaw contained any teeth, but they were in good preservation. 

 The bones of these skeletons were much more decomposed 

 and fragmentary than the bones found in the " West Tump," 

 though of the same type and configuration. With these 

 human remains were found also two teeth and the pelvis 

 of some kind of ox, probably the Bos longifrons, one dog's 

 tooth, a very perfect leaf-shaped arrow-head made of flint, 

 a black oval bead one-and-a-half inch long (now in the 

 Cheltenham Museum) composed of Kimmeridge Shale or of 

 similar substance, having a hole through the centre of it made 

 with a flint borer. This bead, though larger, resembles the 



