By Maud E. Cunnington. 303 



One of the workmen present when the uprights at the entrance 

 were first uncovered stated that a thin slab of stone was found 

 resting lengthwise against the outside of the two uprights ; from 

 his description it also appears that the stones immediately 

 outside the entrance were larger than elsewhere. Possibly these 

 formed a dry walling closing up the chamber. 



A course of regularly-laid stones, forming a containing wall, such 

 as is often found in stone-built barrows was well shown in the 

 section into the mound made by the stone diggers. Where exposed 

 this wall was 3ft. high, and 4ft. within the barrow, measured from 

 the present outside edge of the mound. Possibly this wall had 

 curved inwards to form an entry to the chamber, but evidence as to 

 this was destroyed by the stone diggers. 



In his paper on long barrows in Archceologia, vol. XLIL, Dr. 

 Thurnam classified chambered long barrows into three types : — [A] 

 those with chambers opening into a central gallery; [B], those 

 with no central gallery, but with separate chambers, all with 

 passages opening externally; and [C], those with cists in place of 

 chambers. In this third class Dr. Thurnam placed the barrow at 

 Lanhill. The recently discovered construction is, nevertheless, 

 more corectly described as a chamber than as a cist, for, as Dr. 

 Thurnam himself has said, cists are built up on all four sides and 

 not intended to be entered except from the top, whereas chambers 

 open on one side by a recognisable entrance. Cists, also, generally 

 speaking, are smaller than true chambers. The four cists in the 

 neighbouring barrow at Littleton Drew were not much more than 

 2ft. in height, 1 nor were the cists previously discovered at Lanhill. 

 There were both cists and chambers in the long barrow at 

 Avening, Glos. 



Bones that could not have belonged to fewer than eleven in- 

 dividuals were found in the chamber. The majority of these were 

 on, or in, the red clayey soil of the floor, but one skull was found 

 among the rubble filling-in, some 3 or 4 inches above the level of 

 the floor. This skull was much crushed but otherwise complete, 

 and proved to be the only one capable of restoration. The lower 

 1 Archceologia, XLIIL, 218. 



