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same figure, although not one is now entire, which is probably due 
either to the removal of some of the mounds, or to the original 
design never having been carried out. 
However, the seventeen barrows forming Group No. 4 make two 
perfect figures of the Constellation already mentioned, and are 
placed somewhat in a line, with their narrow ends in opposite 
directions, namely east and west. The most easterly of these two 
figures contains, besides the seven mounds, an additional one, which 
may be said to correspond in position with the small star named 
Alcor, and only visible on very clear nights near the star at the bend 
in the shaft of " Charles' Wain." The companion figure to the west 
exhibits a mound which approximately corresponds to the bright 
star " Cor-caroli " : and there is also a mound between the adjoining 
ones which correspond to the two stars marked "G" (Gamma) and 
" A " (Delta). 
Group No. 5 contains nineteen barrows forming one complete 
figure, and two others that are nearly so. These figures have their 
broad ends pointing south-east, north-west, and north-east res- 
pectively. 
The twenty-one barrows of No. 6 Group are more scattered than 
those in most of the other groups ; yet there is in the centre one 
clearly shown figure of the seven stars in their relative positions ; 
the remaining fourteen, except one, being more or less collected into 
undefinable clusters. These are not shown on the plate. 
Group 7 comprises eighteen barrows, eight of which are arranged 
as in the figure of "Charles' Wain," with the broad end to the north. 
The ten remaining mounds are in two clusters of five each, one of 
which is arranged like the letter W, after the plan of the five bright 
stars in " Cassiopeia," similar figures in cup-cuttings are also found 
on rock surfaces," the other cluster may constitute an incomplete 
figure of " Charles' Wain," or some other assemblage of stars. 
Group 8 is composed of eighteen barrows, seven of which make 
up a very correct plan of the same seven stars, with the broad end 
due north. Six other mounds form a nearly completed copy of the 
same arrangement, but with the broad end in the opposite direction 
* " Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland," by Tate, fig. 4, p. 47. 
