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and such an additional receptacle for additional dead may have been 

 constituted by a somewhat enigmatical structure found in 1868, 

 but destroyed before 1874. This structure, when discovered April 

 10th, 1868, during the process of carting away the eastward end of 

 the barrow, was described as being a ' diagonal oval chamber, built 

 of small slates, after the manner of the inclosing outer wall/ and as 

 being 6 feet by 4 feet 8 inches in transverse measurements. It 

 contained no upright flags, and was 25 feet nearer to the east end 

 of the barrow than the chamber already described, and a little to 

 the north of the middle line. When discovered, it contained 

 the following relics : the distal end of the left radius of an adult 

 man ; the mid and ungual phalanges of an adult human subject ; 

 the clavicle of an infant ; the upper molars of an ox ; the last 

 lower molar of a sheep; and the phalanx of a small carnivore, 

 probably a weasel, as verified by Professor Owen for Mr. Royce, 

 April 27th, 1868 ; and two flint flakes. Though the fact of this 

 penannular structure having been so far away from the line of the 

 chamber already described makes it improbable that the two 

 bodies represented by the bones just mentioned could have been 

 of the number of eight found to the west of that line, it is of 

 importance to note that there is no osteological impossibility in 

 the way of considering them to have so belonged to them. But in 

 favour of their independent origin there is an additional fact, in 

 the possession by me of a very much worn human temporal bone, 

 which can scarcely have belonged to any of the five adult skeletons 

 already spoken of, but which came from some part of this barrow, 

 it is uncertain which. 



If much is left in comparative uncertainty as to the bones con- 

 tained in this structure, much more is left in uncertainty as to the 

 interpretation of the structure itself. It is possible that when dis- 

 covered in 1868 it was even then but the remains of a much larger, 

 or, at least, a more perfect structure ; and that larger or more perfect 

 structure may have been either the remains of a heart-shaped or 

 horned east end, or it may have been the remains of a chamber 

 placed much as certain chambers were placed in the chamber-end 

 barrow at Uley, already referred to as described by Dr. Thurnam. 

 But it is also just possible that it may have been simply a stretch 

 of walling erected as a ' block ' to shore up the loose rubble, of 

 which the great bulk of the tumulus was made. Similar structures, 



