CHAP, viii.] BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 285 



Thurnam, there was a boundary wall of rubble stone from 

 two to three feet high, with large upright blocks of stone 

 placed at intervals, forming a peristyle like those sur- 

 rounding the topes of India. Dr. Thurnam 1 calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that, according to Aristotle, the Iberian 

 people were in the habit of placing as many obelisks 



FIG. 104. Plan of Long Barrow at Uley, Gloucestershire. 



round the tomb of the dead warrior as he had slain 

 enemies ; and it is not without interest that a structure 



1 "Ancient British Barrows," Arcliceologia, xlii. p. 211. 



