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at the east end where the cromlech stands, where the barrow has 
been left of its full height, and only dug through, (as stated above), 
‘to ascertain the non-existence of any deposit. 
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Considerable light is thrown on the long barrows of this part of 
England, by the examination of that of Littleton Drew; the real 
character of which seems now fully ascertained. Some other long 
barrows in this district must have been of the same description, 
containing cists or chambers within, and having megalithic struc- 
tures, in the form of standing stones, apparently the remains of 
cromlechs, at the east end. Such probably was the long barrow 
at Gatcombe Park, near Minchinhampton, in Gloucestershire; the 
barrow in a spot called Irecombe at Boxwell, near Wootton-under- 
Edge; the long tumulus at Duntesbourne Abbots, near Cirencester, 
both in the same county; and that with a fallen cromlech, at 
Enstone, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. In all these 
instances there are, or have been, large stones on the barrow, which 
appear unconnected with the sepulchral cists, and to have been 
designed for some other purpose than one connected with the 
interment of the dead. The evidence afforded by such examples as 
these, is in fayour of some of the megalithic structures called 
cromlechs, being really designed (as the whole of them were formerly 
erroneously supposed to be) for other purposes, and most probably 
for sacrificial rites,—in fact that they were altars. 
NOTE ON THE NAME OF DREW. 
At what period the name of Drew was first applied to places and 
persons is not clear. In Doomsday Book, the name occurs as that 
of two servants of the Conqueror, Herman de Drewes, and Amelric 
de Drewes, each of whom held of the king a manor in Wiltshire. 
The name of Drogo, common in medizval times, is generally 
and with good reason, regarded as synonymous with that of Drew. 
Both the words appear to be of Teutonic origin, and to be derived 
from the verb dragan, to draw, which makes drog and drogon in 
the past tense, as our modern English verb makes drew. Skinner 
