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maximus, but there is no flanging out beyond the plane of that 

 insertion. This flattening is not rare in ancient skeletons with 

 skulls of very various kinds. It has been noted by Holder x as 

 existing in his ' Ligurian ' type. Only a few of the bones of this 

 skeleton have become stained with manganese. 



Swell vi. — Long Barrow in field known as ' Long Ground' two 

 miles west of Netherstvell, TLyford^ co. Gloucester. — In the field next 

 beyond the one lying on the left side of the road leading from 

 Netherswell to Naunton, at the bottom of the first descent, and 

 about two miles from the former place, we — that is to say, the 

 Eev. David Royce, Canon Green well, and myself — examined, in 

 September, 1874, a long barrow of very similar form to the horned 

 tumuli described by the late Dr. Thurnam 2 and by Dr. Joseph 

 Anderson, from parts of Great Britain as far apart from each 

 other as Gloucestershire and Caithness respectively. A plan was 

 taken by Sir H. Dryden, Bart., who visited the spot, and gave 

 us the advantage of his experience. It is sufficient here to give 

 the following particulars : — The broader end of the barrow was at 

 E.N.E., and here the outlines of the two horns 3 were distinctly 

 traceable ; the westward end of the barrow had suffered more from 

 agricultural operations than the eastward. The distance, however, 

 from this end, as restored, to the centre point of the eastward end, 

 was 108 feet. The distance between the tips of the two horns was 

 44 feet ; the barrow tapered gradually from this, its extreme width, 

 to a width of 24 feet at its westward end. The height of the 

 tumulus was about 4 feet, on an average, but allowance must be 

 made for possible diminution by farming processes. The two horns 

 were not symmetrical, the north-eastern being the longer and 

 slenderer. The limiting wall was made of the slate of the district, 

 being Stonesfield oolite, arranged in about fourteen horizontal rows, 

 and forming a boundary about 2 feet wide and 1 foot 9 inches high. 

 The body of the barrow was formed of stones, with a general 

 inclination inwards towards the middle line from either side ; and 

 in the middle line, here and there, a blackish seam was to be seen, 

 due, I think, to accidental detritus of vegetable and other rubbish, 

 during disturbances, in past time, of the barrow. 



1 • Arch. f. Anthropologic' ii. p. 54- ' ? ee ab ? V !' 



3 The Gloucestershire tumuli appear to differ from the Scottish, in having only two 

 horns, and those at the eastward end. 



