62 ON THE INTERMENTS OF PRIMITIVE MAN. 



other peculiarities noticed in these two different kinds of 

 barrows, the theory has been founded that these two dis- 

 tinct kinds of barrows were raised by two distinct races 

 of people. It may be premised that the great labour and 

 difficulty of exploring the long barrows stood very much 

 in the way of their thorough and satisfactory investigation. 

 Even the laborious and enthusiastic barrow-digger, Sir 

 Richard Colt Hoare, who worked for so many years and 

 with so much diligence, and also with such great success, 

 in the exploration of the barrows of Wiltshire and the 

 neighbouring counties, did very little with the long barrows, 

 and was a good deal puzzled with them. Still it had 

 been generally surmised, if not admitted, that these long 

 barrows were of great antiquity, that is, more ancient than 

 the round barrows. Such was the opinion of the late 

 Mr. Bateman. Mr. Bateman opened one or two in Derby- 

 shire, which were chambered, or. had separate interments 

 divided from each other by slabs of stone. This fact has 

 given rise to the appellation of chambered barrows, which 

 name has also been applied to the long barrows. From 

 one of these long barrows, called Long Low, he obtained 

 a skull of a man which is in good condition. This 

 skull I had lithographed, and the wood-cut (No. 7) of 

 four small figures is here repeated. 



It has been represented to me that it would render this 

 paper more instructive if the figures of a short skull from 

 a round barrow of the bronze period were introduced, to 

 indicate the contrasted appearance of the dolichocephalic 

 or long, and the brachycephalic or short skulls. Illustra- 

 tion No. 8 is from another Derbyshire skull. 



From the Wiltshire long barrows still longer and nar- 

 rower skulls have been disinterred. 



