286 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. vm. 



of this sort has been remarked in Britain, since, in the 

 next chapter, we shall see reason to believe on other 

 evidence that the Neolithic inhabitants of our country 

 were of Iberian stock. In some cases the chambered 

 barrow was very complicated, as, for example, at Uley, 

 in Gloucestershire. Not only is there a boundary wall 

 laid in horizontal courses, faced on the outside, and 

 carried up to a height of two or three feet, but at the 

 small end within there are courses continued across, so 

 as to divide it into three chambers (see Fig. 104). At 

 the larger end the outer wall curves gracefully inwards 



FIG. 105. Entrance to Long Barrow, Uley. 



until it reaches the doorway (Fig. 105). Inside, a nar- 

 row passage leads to the tomb proper. The entrance 

 was originally on the outside closed by a block of 

 stone. 



There are, as might be expected, many modifications 

 of the form of the chamber ; sometimes it is cruciform, 

 at others it is divided into a series of niches, or takes 

 the form of a long passage. In some cases the stone 

 chambers are isolated from each other within the tumu- 



