396 ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BARROW PERIOD. 



Canon Green well, who superintended the examination of it in my 

 enforced absence, speaks as follows : ' It was very difficult to say 

 whether any body was entirely undisturbed, though some had some 

 of the bones in their relative positions. The six bodies' (found on 

 the first day) ' were huddled into so small a space, and the bones 

 were so much broken, that it was impossible to make out the 

 relative position of the bones of the several bodies. I think, 

 however, that some, if not all, of the bodies had been placed in 

 the cist in the flesh, or, at all events, when the ligaments were there 

 .... All the skulls seem to be at the south side of the cist .... 

 These cists are very puzzling .... I do not think they have 

 been tampered with in late times, and the whole appearance sug- 

 gests an ossuary/ 



On October % (Friday), Canon Green well wrote that 'the cist 

 has had ten bodies in it, and some certainly in position, if all were 

 not. I incline to the ossuary theory more and more.' Details as 

 to the osteology of this rich ' find ' will be found further on. 



Another { cist' or ■ chamber ' was discovered on the same day as 

 this, making up the entire number of receptacles for skeletons, 

 ' chambers,' or e cists/ to four. In it were found the bones of but a 

 single individual, a young person between the age of twelve and 

 sixteen, the upper epiphysis of the ulna being unanchylosed, 

 whilst all the permanent, except the wisdom teeth, were in use, 

 and an urn of black, coarse ware of quite different character from 

 the one already spoken of as found placed superficially to the 

 second ' cist/ This cist was about 4 feet square ; it was close upon 

 the southern wall of the barrow, and about 85 feet from the re- 

 entering angle of its eastern end. The facts of this cist having but 

 a single occupant, and this occupant being a young person, and 

 being accompanied, which was not the case with any other skeleton 

 found in these long barrows, by a food-vessel, are not unimportant. 

 In this barrow, as in the two other long barrows examined by us 

 in this locality, and also in the cases of certain other Gloucester- 

 shire long barrows, and in the case of the long Scottish cairn, 

 Camster, in Caithness, no burial had taken place at the east end. 



Osteology. — (Swell vi, C. 2). — From the 'chamber' or 'cist' No. 2, 

 examined by Canon Green well, and labelled Swell vi, C. 2, we have 

 evidence, through the lower jaws recovered by him, of no less than 

 ten bodies having been interred in it. Of these bodies only one 



