680 ON THE STRUCTURE OF ROUND AND LONG BARROWS. 



barrow of the Bronze period of a man laid out at full length, the 

 general rule being that of burial in a contracted position. As 

 regarded the date to be assigned to these things, he might give it 

 as his opinion that no Roman ever used a bronze sword, nor crossed 

 swords with an enemy using a sword of that material. As regarded 

 the long barrows, that mode of burial stretched all the way from 

 Wales to the Orkneys, and in them was found not a scrap of metal. 

 His opinion was that the idea of the construction of these barrows 

 was taken from limestone mountain headlands projecting into the 

 sea, such as might be seen by a little trip in their immediate 

 locality^. The men lived in caves, and the idea for the place of 

 burial was taken from the place of living, it being often found that 

 a man made the house in which he lived his burial-place. 



^ [The Meeting of the British Association at which this paper was read, was held 

 at Swansea. — Editoe.] 



