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the same stone, but had been much disturbed by having been 

 ploughed over, to aid in which process many of the larger stones 

 had been removed. It has a direction E.N.E. and W. S.W., and 

 is 108 ft. long, 44 ft. wide at the east and 24 ft. at the west end, 

 being now in no part above 3^ ft. high. It was surrounded by a 

 wall or facing of thin oolitic slates, which in some places consisted 

 of as many as fourteen horizontal courses. At the east end the 

 wall assumed the ' horned' form, the north-eastern limb being 

 slightly narrower and longer than the other. At the extreme west 

 end the wall was not observable ; the barrow, however, had been 

 much destroyed by ploughing at that part, being in fact almost 

 entirely removed, and it is probable that originally the wall had 

 extended round that end also. The mound had been constructed 

 with a certain amount of care, for the stones were arranged sloping 

 gently inwards from each side towards the middle. Four recep- 

 tacles for the dead were discovered in the barrow, to all of which 

 I have no hesitation in applying the term chamber, since all were 

 incomplete at one end or side, and in this feature differed from the 

 cist with its perfect box-like construction. In three of them it is 

 true there was no passage leading into them, but the absence of 

 completeness in the enclosing walls of the chamber, whether there 

 be a passage in connection with it or not, as opposed to the com- 

 pleteness of the walls of the cist, appears to me to mark the dis- 

 tinction between the stone burial receptacle of the long barrows 

 and that of the later round barrows. 



As the eastern portion of the mound was examined more especi- 

 ally under Professor Rolleston's superintendence, though I was 

 myself present, and as the notes were taken by him, I prefer to 

 extract from his paper in the Journal of the Anthropological Insti- 

 tute the account he there gives of what was observed iri that part 

 of the barrow. 



'At about 17 or 18 feet westwards from the centre point of 

 the eastward end were found some bones of a child, with the milk 

 dentition in place, about 2 ft. or half-way down in the barrow. 

 Parts also of an ulna, of a tibia, of the phalanges, and of both 

 temporals of an adult, were found at about the same distance 

 from the east end, and at a point a little south by west of the 

 middle line. In the middle line of the barrow at this distance 

 from the east end was a blackish seam of about 6 ft. 6 in. in width, 

 containing bones, but limited in the eastward direction by masses 

 of stones, under which also were found a few fragments of human 



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