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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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things might join the dead in the world of shadows. 

 Some large and important chambered tombs, however, 



FIG. 106. Walker's Hill. FIG. 107. Rodmarton. FIG. 108. Rodmarton. 

 Leaf-shaped Arrow-heads from Chambered Long Barrows, . 



which must have been made at considerable cost of 

 labour, contain remarkably few implements, and this 

 may be due to the custom of burying models, of some 

 perishable material, of the valuables of the deceased. 

 At the present day wooden models are sometimes placed 

 in the hut of the dead by the Eskimos, and bank notes 

 and imitation dollars, made of paper covered with silver 

 foil, are burnt by the Chinese to enrich the spirit of the 

 dead. In the Etruskan tombs jewels were placed, too 

 thin and fragile to be serviceable to the living. If this 

 practice were carried on in the Neolithic age, the models 

 would have perished without leaving a trace behind. 

 It must also be observed that the large size of a tomb 

 may be due to its having been prepared by a great 

 man for himself during his own lifetime, after the 



