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ness about I foot 6 inches. Its west end was quadrangular. Its 

 long axis ran very nearly due east and west, as was shown in 

 a ground-plan and sections, which, like a plan and section of 

 ' Swell vi.,' was taken by Sir H. Dryden, Bart. 



The point of special interest in this barrow was the presence 

 in it, at 24 feet from its west end, of a chamber 7 feet by 4 in 

 size, which had long ago, though within the memory of man, been 

 rifled, but which still contained, in September, 1874, evidence of 

 having furnished lodgment to no less than nine human bodies. To 

 this chamber a passage led, the limit between chamber and passage 

 being marked by the presence of a sort of doorway, across which a 

 large flagstone crossed, at a distance of 1 foot 3 inches from the 

 ground, and helped to support the roof. The floor of the passage 

 was flagged, whilst that of the chamber was not, and just outside 

 the doorway opening into the f chamber ' lay parts of two more or 

 less disturbed skeletons, one of a woman, one of a child, overlaid 

 by an almost or entirely undisturbed male skeleton. 



As regards this arrangement of the stones of which the barrow 

 was made up, it is well to state that between the north and south 

 walls the largest stones were found in the middle line, and were 

 thus often placed upright with the more outwardly placed stones 

 sloping towards them, and resting upon them for some distance, 

 and then assuming a more horizontal arrangement. The first three 

 feet from the ground were occupied by larger stones; the upper 

 three of the entire number of six, the average height of the barrow, 

 were occupied by smaller and less regularly placed stones. It was 

 here, owing to the size of the barrow, and notably its height, that 

 we observed that the workmen, in removing the stones in the various 

 exploratory incisions, came constantly to arrange the stones which 

 they displaced, in horizontal layers, for the sake of security from down- 

 falls. Thus an appearance just like that of the transverse * walling,' 

 often observed in the undisturbed parts of the barrow, was frequently 

 produced, and it is obvious that the two similar arrangements, how- 

 ever different in date, must, in all likelihood, have been due to the 

 same cause, viz. the consideration by the labourers concerned of 

 their own convenience. 



The concavity of the horns at the east end was filled up for a 

 space of i feet in depth with fine, small stones, outside of which 

 again came larger stones, all evidently arranged intentionally, and 



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