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opposite pairs on the outside edge of the mound 

 and opening outwards (Fig. 3, b). The two best 

 known examples of this are the tumuli of Avening 

 and of Rodmarton. 



In the third type of barrow there is no chamber 

 connected with the outside, but its place is taken 

 by several dolmens — so small as to be mere cists — 

 within the mound. 



The burials in these barrows seem to have been 

 without exception inhumations. The body was 

 placed in the crouched position, either sitting up 

 or reclining. In an untouched chamber at Rod- 

 marton were found as many as thirteen bodies, 

 and in the eastern chamber at Charlton's Abbott 

 there were twelve. With the bodies lay pottery, 

 vases, and implements of flint and bone. 



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