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interment in such barrows. Several instances, however, have been 

 put on record in which there seems to be much reason for accepting 

 the description of the existence of such cists so placed. The 

 account of the exploration of the Littleton Drew Long Barrow, 

 successively by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and by G. P. Scrope, Esq., 

 M.P., given in the description of PL 24 of the ' Crania Britannica ; ' 

 and that of the exploration of the tumulus of Charlton Abbots, given 

 by L. Winterbotham, Esq., in the ' Proceedings of the Society of 

 Antiquaries,' April 19, 1866, appear to me to give trustworthy 

 histories of such discoveries ; and other examples may be found in 

 Dr. Thurnam's paper on ' Long Barrows ' in the ' Archaeologia ' for 

 1869. 



Weinhold 1 divides the Hunenberge into two classes, accordingly 

 as they contain ' cists,' or chambers with galleries 2 . In a long 

 barrow, ' Swell vi./ I found what appeared to me to have been a 

 closed cist, containing a considerable number of human remains, 

 and also the skeleton of a dog, as will be related at length further 

 on. This receptacle had been much disturbed, and I shall not, 

 therefore, lay any weight upon the presence, a short distance above 

 it, of some fragments of finer thong-marked pottery than I have 

 seen from any other long barrow ; still, some traces of a passage or 

 gallery leading to it would, I think, have been discovered if they 

 had existed. The bones from this, as also from another somewhat 

 similarly dilapidated sepulchre in the same barrow, had less of the 

 manganic oxide discolouration than was observable upon bones from 

 the galleried chambers in this district ; and though this may be 

 explained as being due to some chemical difference in the soil, it is 

 also possible that it may indicate a lesser antiquity in the bones so 

 affected, as compared with the others. 



On the whole, I am inclined to think that indications are not 

 wanting which suggest to us that inhumation will ultimately be 

 shown to have been the earliest mode of burial practised in these, as 

 yet the earliest of known sepulchres ; that inhumation in galleried 

 chambers was probably the earliest variety practised, at least where 

 the necessary slabs for the construction of such chambers and 



1 L. c, p. 6. 



2 So Engelhardt, in his « Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Copenhagen Museum,' 

 speaking of the ' Grabkammer of the stone age,' says it ' hat bisweilen einen niedrigern 

 bedeckten Steingang' (p. 9, ed. 1872). 



