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had all tlicir angles left, which inight have been brokcn off, 

 to facilltate transport, or to fit tbem better into place, if 

 tbe use of the sledge-harnnier bad been known. Tbe 

 avenue of tbis tumulus seems to have run tbe entire 

 length, being more complete in structure tban eitber Uley 

 or Stoney Llttleton. 



Mr. Pbelps observes : " The whole tumulus is novv 

 (1835) nearly destroyed; a lime-kiln having been built on 

 the spot, and the stones burnt into liine." 



On July 17, 1856, I visited tbis spot, Walking across the 

 hill from Nailsea, and found the whole an entire ruin, no 

 other trace of the tumulus left than a few heaps of small 

 stones near the lime-kiln, vvhich seems to have been dis- 

 used for some time. It is impossible now to trace the 

 form of the barrow, wbich seems to have been constructed 

 in the surface of the level ground. The Situation of it is 

 secluded, and somewhat melancholy, being in a small hollow 

 valley, with a high hill on the north, and a small brook 

 flows through the lower part of it. When the ground 

 around was covered with forest, as it probably was in 

 ancient times, the seclusion and quiet must have been 

 complete. I made enquiry of the farmer, but he could 

 give me no Information respecting it, as he stated he was a 

 new corner. Thus the very tradition of the spot will soon 

 have passed away, and there would be no remembrance of 

 tbis tumulus, were it not for the account given of it in the 

 Gentlemans Magazine from whence Mr. Pbelps' and Mr. 

 Sayer's are taken. 



We cannot sufficiently regret the loss of these most 

 interesting monuments of former ages. WTien once de- 

 stroyed they can never be replaced. The habits and 

 manners of an extinet race, the primeval inhabitants of 

 tbis island, aro brought vividly befoi'e our minds at the 



