202 MORTIMER : STAR-WORSHIP INDICATED BY GROUPING OF BARROWS. 
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This juxta-placing of the barrows at the time of their erection was 
not an unintentional fact ; neither was their arrangement into a 
definite figure without some well understood meaning. We cannot, 
however, expect to find that the first copy of the model has remained 
perfect everywhere. So many of the barrows have been destroyed 
since their erection ; besides, in several instances, from various 
causes, most probably, the group was never completed. Still we are 
able, in many of them, to make out with tolerable certainty that the 
design that has been copied in the arrangement of the barrows in 
several of these groups has been after the same model. 
This figure, so constantly repeated by the intentional arrange- 
ment of the barrows, bears an unmistakable resemblance to that of 
"Charles' Wain" in the Constellation ''Ursa Major." 
We find in Group No. 1 in the diagram, two of these figures 
clearly shown, and placed in a line with their broad ends in nearly 
opposite directions, one to the north-east, the other to the west. 
Each figure contains the seven representative mounds, corresponding 
to the seven stars of Charles' Wain " and no more. 
The plan of the ten mounds in Group No. 2, probably from 
some of them having been levelled dow^n, is not quite clear, and, 
therefore, it is not given in the diagram. 
Of the thirty-five mounds in Group No. 3, thirty-two are 
arranged into five somewhat undefinable clustres. Each of these, 
however, seems to show an unmistakable intention of forming the 
