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respecting that tumulus which is of very similar character, 

 though differing in ai'rangernent, which was opened in 

 1854, and the particulars of which are given in the 44th 

 No. of the Journal of the Archasological Institute ot 

 Great Britain and Ireland, and more recently in the I. 

 Decad of the Crania Britannica. Dr. Thurnam describes 

 this tuuiulus, which is locally termed a "tump," as a long 

 barrow or cairn of stones, covered with a thin layer of 

 vegetable earth. It had been planted, and in cutting down 

 the timber in 1820, or in digging for stone, sorae workmen 

 discovered the character of the tumulus, and found there 

 two skeletons. Unfortunately the Chamber which they 

 came upon was broken up. In 1821 it was examined, and 

 notes taken, but a further examination was made in 1854, 

 under the direction of Mr. Freeman, when several members 

 of the Archreological Institute were present. 



The length is about 120 feet, and the breadth, where it 

 is greatest, 85 feet ; the height about ten feet. It is 

 higher and broader at the east end than elsewhere. The 

 form of its ground plan resembles that well-known figure 

 of the mediteval architects, the " vesica piscis." At the 

 east end, and about twenty-five feet within the area of the 

 cairn, the entrance to a Chamber was formed, in front of 

 which the stones are built into a neat wall of dry masonry. 

 The entrance is a trilithon, formed by a large flat stone, 

 upwards of eight feet in length, and four and a half feet 

 deep, supported by two upright stones, with a space of 

 about two and a half feet between the lower edge of the 

 larsre stone and natural crround. The entrance leads into a 

 Chamber or gallery, running east and west, about twenty- 

 two feet long and four and a half feet wide, and five feet 

 high. The walls of this gallery are formed of large slabs 

 of stone of irregulär shape, and set into the ground on 



