70 On the Barrow at Lanhill near Chippenham; 
In a hollow, on the north side of the barrow and of this excavation, 
the upper edge of a somewhat thick flat stone, about five feet in 
length, projected above the turf. On digging round this, it proved 
to be about two and a half feet in height, and to range from 8.8.E., 
to N.N.W. On the east side, a piece of the large horn of a red deer 
was found, and on the west, were a few fragments of two human 
skeletons, which, as indicated by the lower jaws, were probably 
those of men, of about twenty and forty years of age. The stone 
rested on the natural soil, and at its south-west corner, a much 
smaller stone was observed, which was placed at a right angle with 
the other; and perhaps indicated that a small rude cist had existed 
in this situation. Nothing else was found. 
Whilst we have no hesitation in classifying the Lanhill tumulus 
with the other long stone barrows of this part of England, we 
must remain in doubt whether the dilapidated stone structure near 
the east end had formed part of a chamber, such as may be seen 
at Stoney Littleton and Uley,' or whether it had rather been a 
large cist. If a chamber, intended to be entered from the east end, 
we must suppose that the covering stones had been removed, and 
that the stone now placed transversely between the two others, had, 
possibly during some earlier examination, been forced into its 
present place, with a view of preserving the position of these two 
side stones. If this transverse stone is regarded as always having 
occupied its present position, we must then conclude that the three 
stones formed the western end of a small chamber or large cist, 
the rest of the stones having long since been removed. On the 
whole, the former view appears the more probable. As to the 
stones on the north side of the centre of the barrow, we can have 
little difficulty in tracing in them the remains of a small cist, such 
as have been found in long stone barrows in this district; and 
of which we have examples at Littleton Drew, Duntesbourne 
Abbots, and other places. The occurrence of stone cists, with 
1 See ‘¢ Archeologia,” 1819, vol. XIX, p. 43, for Stoney Littleton; ‘* Archzeo- 
logical Journal,” 1854, vol. XI, p. 313, for Uley. 
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