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is impossible to say, in consequence of its having- been destroyed 

 before any one interested in such structures had an opportunity of 

 seeing it. The chamber, which was partly removed before Dr. 

 Kolleston and I examined it, is said to have been about 3 ft. square. 

 It contained three skeletons; whilst outside, and to the south- 

 west of it, the remains of other five bodies were found in 1867 and 

 1874. There was a certain careful arrangement of the stones, 

 forming in fact a wall, on each side of these last-mentioned bones, 

 the easternmost one being in a line with the east side of the 

 chamber. Whether these walls were intentionally made for the 

 purpose of containing the interments, or were merely such as were 

 found abundantly in the barrow next but one to be described, it is 

 impossible to say; these latter were clearly constructed to enable 

 the persons making the barrow the more readily and safely to 

 effect their purpose, just in fact in the same way as we found that 

 the modern labourers, in opening the barrow, arranged the stones 

 they removed in the process. Another and remarkable chamber 

 was met with in 1868, but was destroyed before I first saw the 

 barrow in 1 874. It was placed 30 ft. from the east end of the 

 mound and to the north of the mesial line ; and w^as 6 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in., 

 of an oval form, and having a direction very nearly due north and 

 south. Like the enclosing wall or facing, it was constructed of 

 thin slates of stone in horizontal courses. From the description 

 given of it and a drawing made by Mr. Royce at the time of its 

 discovery, it appears to have borne, in many particulars, a strong 

 resemblance to one found in an adjoining round barrow described 

 p. 448. It contained some human bones of two adults and of an 

 infant, molars of an ox, one molar of a goat or sheep, a single 

 bone of probably a weasel, and two flint flakes. Several fragments of 

 pottery and some peculiar cigar-shaped pieces of imperfectly burnt 

 clay, probably the supports of vessels whilst undergoing the opera- 

 tion of firing, were discovered towards the west end of the mound, 

 and not much below its surface. All these probably belonged to a 

 time subsequent to that of the erection of the barrow, as a coin of 

 Constantine certainly did which was found near the same place. 



Parish of Eyford, Gloucestershire. Orel. Map. xltv. n.e. 



CCXXX. This barrow, which was not quite a mile distant from 

 that last described, had, like it, some round barrows in its imme- 

 diate neighbourhood. It was made of oolitic rubble and slabs of 



