ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BABEOW PEBIOD. 375 



close to its northern boundary line, and 55 feet from its east 

 end. In this chamber were found three skeletons, and in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, either at the same time or in 1874, parts 

 or the whole of five more skeletons, making a total of eight, for 

 whose reception or honour the tumulus had been piled together. 

 The osteological remains, and the surroundings in which they were 

 found, will be described in greater detail further on. The barrow 

 was found to be bounded (irrespective of talus) on its north and 

 south sides by a wall made up of the oolitic flags of the district, 

 laid in horizontal courses ; the presence of a wall was not made out 

 at the west, nor, as already stated, at the east end. The wall was 

 about 2 feet 3 inches in height on the south side, but was consider- 

 ably less on the north, where it was in some places reduced to as 

 few as three or four courses of its constituent flags. The north wall 

 turned inward, to form the passage just mentioned as leading to 

 the skeleton-containing chamber. The walls of the chamber con- 

 sisted of flagstones of much larger size than those used for forming 

 the boundary walls of the tumulus, the largest being as large as 

 3 feet 6 inches by 1 feet 4 inches. Some of these stones had been 

 set on edge ; some, probably, had served as covering stones. The 

 walls of the chamber thus constituted were set inside the walls of 

 the passage formed by the inward prolongations of the north wall. 

 But this barrow was broader at the level of the chamber than at 

 that of the extreme eastward end; that is, in other words, it 

 was spindle-shaped, instead of being, as is commonly the case in 

 long barrows, club-shaped, or, as in the horned cairns, heart-shaped, 

 with the broader end eastwards. It is true that on measuring 

 the entire mass of talus which the rubble had formed at the east 

 end, the space thus curved was found to be 6 or 7 feet wider than 

 the transverse measurement of the barrow, taken across the 

 chamber. The limitary walls, both north and south, took a set 

 inwards as they passed eastward from that line. Mr. Koyce has 

 suggested that these portions of the limitary walls do not repre- 

 sent the original boundary walls of the barrow for the 55 feet 

 or so from its eastward end, but that the original outer wall 

 ran along a line more or less continuous with that of the walling 

 to the westward of the chamber, and that it has been removed in 

 some unrecorded denudation of the mound. The more internally 

 placed and still persistent walls might be but layers of stone, 



