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these mounds have been erected shice the dijf'usiun of 

 Chris tianity. Mr. Kemble, in his last valuable conti'ibution 

 to tbe Journal of the Archaaological Institute, mentions 

 a case, as late as A.D. 673, where a barrow was erected 

 over a Bisliop, whom bis enemies wished to bave believed 

 to be dead ; and he quotes, as instances of barrows raised 

 in comparatively modern times, those of Gorm the eider, 

 and Thyra Dannebad, at Gilga, which their son raised in 

 their honour in the tenth Century. " The mounds of this 

 Christian hing," says he, "are higher than the church 

 steeple at Gorms." " I suspect," he observes, " that great 

 tumuli continued to distiuguish the rieh and powerful, 

 tili the fashion of stone monuments in the churches ren- 

 dered it baroque and rococo." (See Archceological Journal, 

 No. 54, 1857, June.) 



The writer has, in the same interesting paper, enume- 

 rated instances where reference is made to ancient tumuli 

 in Saxon charters. In tracing the boundary of an estate, 

 in one instance, it is said to run ob Sone ha^benan bypijelj-, 

 i. e., i to the heathen burial place ;' or, ob "Sa haeftenan 

 bynijelj-aj-, in the plural, i. e., ' to the heathen burying 

 places,' where there can be little doubt that a mound, or 

 mounds, are intended, inasmuch as the primeval stone 

 struetures, which we call cromlechs, dolmens, or stone 

 cists, are obviously alluded to under a different name. 

 The expression bepph, or barrow, often oecurs ; a boundary 

 runs on $a haeSen beopja] - , and thence again on Sa 

 haebenan bypjena — in the heathen barrows ; in the heathen 

 burying places. 



With respect to the dimensions of mounds, it appears 

 that in all places where they have been found their sizes 

 vary exceedingly. Thus of those in North America, it is 

 stated that the mounds are of all dimensions, from a few 



