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in the barrows of those counties, a full account of which will be 

 found in his ' Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire ' and ' Ten 

 Years' Diggings.' For Dorsetshire Mr. Warne has published, in his 

 ' Celtic Tumuli of Dorset,' a record of many barrow-openings con- 

 ducted by himself as well as by others in that county; and the 

 same has been done for Cornwall by Mr. W. C. Borlase in ' Nenia 

 Cornubige.' Besides these larger works, many notices of the exam- 

 ination of barrows will be found in various Archaeological Journals, 

 local as well as national. Nor would it be just to omit^ though the 

 places of sepulture there treated of belong to a period posterior to 

 that with which my own researches have been connected, Douglas's 

 ' Nenia Britannica,' and that most admirable account of his ex- 

 amination of Kentish cemeteries given by the Rev. Bryan Faussett 

 in the ' luventorium Sepulchrale ; ' a work which it is much to be 

 regretted remained in manuscript for nearly a century after the 

 death of its author. 



The barrow-openings recorded in this book have principally been 

 made in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a district which possesses in 

 the Wolds a locality abundant in such remains, and where the 

 greater part fortunately had been left uninjured, except in so far as 

 the cultivation of the land during a comparatively short period had 

 to some extent destroyed the surface of the mounds. In the same 

 district a large series of barrows has been most carefully and ex- 

 haustively examined by Messrs. J. R. and R. Mortimer, of Driffield 

 and Fimber, the results of whose labours will I hope before long be 

 published. 



Accounts of a few of the barrows more fully described in this 

 work have already been given by me in the Journal of the Archseo- 

 logical Institute and in the Transactions of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Field Club, but it has been thought desirable to include 

 these in order to render the series in each case more complete. 



To this history of the opening of British barrows are appended 

 two essays by George Rolleston, M.D., F.R.S., Linacre Professor of 

 Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Oxford, under whose 

 charge, in the New Museum of that body, are deposited the skulls 

 obtained from the various sepulchral mounds herein described. One 

 of these essays gives a minute ' Description of Figures of the Skulls,' 



