EARLY MAN 
mound or barrow. (Long heads and long barrows go together ; round 
heads and round barrows.) That long barrow was also the place of 
sepulchre for his wife, or wives, and children. With him were deposited 
certain earthen vessels, and implements of stone and bone, apparently 
made new for the occasion. This may prove that he had some belief in 
a future state in which he would require these things. 
Many long mounds exist in Cumberland which externally bear the 
appearance of long barrows; in most cases, perhaps in all, positive proof 
by excavation is wanting ; the late Dr. Simpson, than whom no man 
was better acquainted with Cumberland and Westmorland farms, farmers 
and their ways, has suggested that some of these long mounds are mere 
bracken-stack-bottoms, bracken being formerly extensively cut and 
stacked for winter use. Others, again, may be mere natural mounds, 
but such natural mounds were liable to be, and have often been, adopted 
by prehistoric people as ready-made places of sepulchre. The greatest 
caution is therefore necessary in pronouncing upon such mounds, until 
they have been explored by competent persons. 
At Latterbarrow, under lv[uncaster Fell, are three long mounds 
fenced in by large stones—two of them about 20 feet long and 3 feet 
high, the third smaller. Their position is near the upper side of a large 
grass field, on the 400 feet contour, souti: of the western end of Raven 
Crag. These were first pointed out by Mr. C. W. Dymond, F.S.A., 
and promise well to repay examination. At the other extremity of 
Cumberland, according to the late Rev. John Maughan, in the Archao- 
logical ‘fournal, vol. xl., pp. 231, 232, there were once, in the parish of 
Bewcastle, in a field called Cairns, at a place known as the Nook, 
Roanstrees, 
five parallel ridges of stone or barrows, averaging about 150 yards in length and 
about a yard deep. 
They have been long cleared off to make way for the plough, and were 
more probably bracken-stack-bottoms than long barrows. At Cairn 
o the Mount, near Peelohill in the same parish, is, according to the 
same authority, a mound about 80 yards in length and about 8 yards 
broad, pointed at each end, and terraced round. Further investigation 
is required here. At Harras, near the Roman Camp of Birdoswald, is 
what seems to be a fine long barrow. On Stockdale Moor in west 
Cumberland is a large tumulus 35 yards long, 12 yards across at the 
broadest end, while the other is pointed. This is called Sampson’s 
Bratful. A careful search through the district would probably add to 
the number of mounds which might or might not be long barrows. 
High up on the fells would be the best hunting ground, for in the valleys 
mounds and tumuli are apt to be swept away by good agriculturists, who 
dislike to see unproductive patches of ground in their holdings. 
5. IMPLEMENTS 
If, however, the long barrows of the dolicho-cephalic man in 
Cumberland are few and doubtful, yet stone implements have been found 
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