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On o Cromlech-tumults called Lughury, ear 
Littleton Drew. 
By Joun TuurnAM, M.D., F.S.A. 
In the County of Gloucester, and north-west of Wilts, particu- 
larly in the district of the Cotswold hills, and some neighbouring 
parts of Somerset, are several sepulchral tumuli of peculiar 
character, which have hitherto attracted but little attention, and 
which, so far as we know, are nearly confined, at least in their most 
fully developed forms, to this part of England. These tumuli are 
cairns or barrows (in the language of the district twmps) composed 
chiefly of loose stones, of long or oval form, varying from about 
120 to 180 feet in length, ranging nearly from west to east, and 
having the broadest and highest part towards the east. Internally 
they are found to contain, in some cases, chambers walled in with 
stone, which open into a gallery, evidently intended to be entered 
from one end, the east; in others, cells or cists, which, when used for 
the purpose of interment, must have been opened from above. In 
some instances, from their ruinous condition, or from the imperfect 
descriptions given of them, it is almost impossible to decide to 
which of these classes they belong. Of the first class, or those 
containing chambers, the best examples are at Uley in Glouces- 
tershire, and at Stoney Littleton in Somersetshire.' Of those 
containing one or more cists or cistvaens, as it is usual to call 
them, Duntesford Abbots in Gloucestershire, and Littleton Drew 
in Wiltshire, now to be described, present well-marked instances. 
In the long barrow at Avening, there seems to have been both a 
chamber and cists; whilst as regards those at Lanhill, Luckington, 
) Archeologia, vol. 19. p. 43. Archeeological Journal, 1854, vol. XI. p. 315. 
