On a Cromlech-tumulus called Lugbury, 165 
and Shurdington,' there is more or less doubt to which form the 
contained structures must be referred. There is however sufficient 
similarity in their character, notwithstanding this variety of internal 
structure, to lead us to refer all these barrows to the same period 
and people. This conclusion is confirmed by the mode of interment, 
which, so far as they have been examined, is common to all of them. 
In the chambers, and also in the cists, are found entire human 
skeletons, in a contracted posture, and frequently crowded together 
in groups. With these only very trivial objects of art have been 
discovered; but, so far as appears, these are confined to stone 
implements, such as flint flakes, knives, or arrow-heads, and stone 
axes; and with these, bones and teeth of the lower animals, for 
instance, of oxen, horns of the red deer, and tusks and other teeth 
of boars. In several instances, fragments of pottery and other 
objects have been met with, chiefly near the surface ; but these are 
evidently of a later, and generally of the Roman, period, and must 
have been deposited in these spots, either by those who have resorted 
to them for superstitious or funereal purposes, or who have dug into 
and rifled them, in search of treasure. 
From these general remarks, we may proceed to the description 
of the Littleton Drew tumulus, which is situated in a field 
called the “three stone field,” in the parish of Nettleton, nearly 
equidistant, and about a mile, from the villages of Littleton Drew, 
Nettleton, and Castle Combe. The earliest notice to be found of 
this barrow is in an unpublished work by John Aubrey, the well- 
_ known Wiltshire topographer and antiquary, from whom we learn 
that in the 17th century it was called “Lugbury,” a designation which 
it has probably long ceased to bear. “Lugbury,” says Aubrey, 
“is in a field in the parish of Nettleton, but near to Littleton 
Drew in Wiltshire, over against the ruins of Castle Combe. At 
the east end of this barrow is a great table stone of bastard free- 
1 For the Lanhill barrow, see ante, page 67; for that at Luckington, Sir 
‘R. C. Hoare’s ‘“ Ancient Wilts,” vol. II. p. 101; and for that at Shurdington, 
the ‘ Journal of the British Archwological Association,” vol. I. p. 153; vol LI. 
p. 64; and Wright’s “Celt, Roman, and Saxon,” p. 53, may be consulted. 
