CHAP, viii.] THE BELIEF IN A FUTURE STATE. 287 



lus. Kits Cotty House, in Kent, and Wayland Smith's 

 Cave, are still simpler forms, without a gallery. 



The dead were buried in these tombs as they died, 

 in a contracted or crouching posture, which is prob- 

 ably due, as Mr. Evans suggests, to their sleeping 

 in that position, and not at full length on a bed. 

 In the caves and tumuli which I have examined, 

 I have been unable to detect any regularity in the 

 position, although very generally the corpse had been 

 interred on its side. Dr. Thurnam believes, from the 

 many cases in which heTias met with cleft skulls, that 

 human sacrifices were offered, as was the habit among 

 the Gauls, according to the testimony of Caesar and 

 Mela. 1 Domestic animals were also slaughtered, and 

 were eaten with the wild animals, such as the boar, roe, 

 and stag, in honour of the dead. In the barrow of 

 Tilshead Lodge 2 were two skulls of the Celtic short-horn, 

 nearly perfect ; and in another barrow were part of a 

 skull and a number of bones of the feet in their natural 

 positions. In both these instances it would appear that 

 the heads and feet were thrown on the yet incomplete 

 barrow, " as offerings to the manes and other deities." 



The Belief in a Future State. 



Implements of various kinds, flakes, arrow-heads 

 (Figs. 106, 107, 108), scrapers, celts, and pottery, are 

 very generally found in the tombs, and probably were 

 intended for the use of the dead. Sometimes they have 

 been purposely broken, so that they might be of no use 

 to the living, and from the idea that the spirits of the 



1 Caesar, vi. 19 ; Mela, iii. 2. 2 Thurnam, Archceologia, p. 22. 



