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itself, two feet three inches broad, four feet high, and nine 

 feet long from north to south. Here was found a perfect 

 skeleton, the skull with teeth entire, the body having been 

 deposited north and south. 



" At the end of the first sepulchre, the horizontal stones 

 on the top had fallen down. There were two other cata- 

 combs, one on the right and the other on the left, of the 

 avenue, containing several human skulls and other bones. 

 A lateral excavation was made, and the central avenue 

 was found to be continued. Three cells were here discern- 

 ible, two on the west side and one on the east. These had 

 no bones in them. The whole tumulus was covered with 

 a thin Stratum of earth, and overgrown with trees and 

 bushes. 



" The upright stones of which the cells are composed are 

 stated to have been many of them two or three tons weight 

 eacb, and in the very State in which Nature formed them. 

 The number of cells can only be matter of conjecture. 

 Supposing the avenue to have been 110 feet long, and 

 about two feet thickness of wall or stone between each two 

 cells, there would be room for ten cells on each side of the 

 avenue." (See Sayer's History of Bristol.) 



The writer of this notice conjectures this sepulchral 

 tumulus to have been the work of the Druids, and the 

 burying-place belonging to the Great Temple of Stanton 

 Drew. 



We cannot but remark here how the same method 

 seems to have been followed here as at Wellow, of closing 

 up a portion after interment, and it may be that the 

 avenue was from time to time lengthened, and fresh cells 

 made, as space was required. Nothing was found in the 

 tumulus, neither um nor coin, nor inscription of any sort, 

 nor the trace of a workman's tool. The largc flag-stoncs 



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