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to five feet. These, like all barrows of the Plain, were built of material 

 most easily accessible. 



The bell-shaped barrow is said to be more common and more beauti- 

 ful in Wiltshire than in any other part of England, and reaches its high- 

 est state of development near Stonehenge. The graceful form of this 

 barrow is shown in figure 92, while figure 93 shows its cross-section. 



Fig. 92. — Bell barrow, Stonehenge. Drawing liy the author. 



Unlike the long barrows, they are entirely surrounded by a circular 

 ditch or trench from which the material was taken with which to build 

 the mound. "Within the ditch is a circular area from which the mound 



Fig. 93. — Cross-section of a bell barrow, Stonehenge. Drawing by the author. 



rises from five to fifteen feet in graceful conical form." The diameter 

 usually exceeds one hundred feet, making an impressive elevation. The 

 largest mound of this type in the British Isles is located on Salisbury 

 Plain. 



The disc barrow was "so named by Dr. Thurnam, the great barrow 

 expert, from its resemblance to a flat dish, surrounded by a deep rim." 

 As is shown in figure 94, it consists of a circular, level area, about a 

 hundred feet in diameter, surrounded by a ditch, with its bank on the 



