206 MORTIMER : STAR-WORSHIP INDICATED BY GROUPING OF BARROWS. 
whilst the three additional mounds hold the same suggestive positions 
as the two at the broad end of Group No. 13, 
The remaining eighteen barrows of this series are not shown on 
the diagram, but twelve of them seem to make two incompleted 
figures of " Charles' Wain," the remaining six are more indefinitely- 
scattered. 
It will be observed that there are, as previously intimated, a few 
additional mounds closely connected with some of the figures, but 
these do not destroy the true arrangement of the seven mounds. 
After this number had been built, other mounds would often continue 
to be added, and sometimes in the end the increased number would 
make the original figure almost indistinguishable. Often, however, 
several of these superfluous mounds are found (when compared with 
the constellation they were intended to represent) in the relative 
positions where on very clear nights corresponding stars may be 
observed. 
This arrangement of five to eight mounds after the figure of 
''Charles' Wain" is shown to occur more frequently on the area of 
my investigations than it probably does elsewhere. Most likely this 
is due to the district having been less tilled, and consequently fewer 
barrows have been removed, and also to my having restored upon 
the maps several barrows so obHterated as to have escaped the notice 
of those engaged on the Ordnance Survey. 
In the sixteen groups of tumuli I have opened, there are twenty- 
three complete or partly complete figures of " Charles' Wain," and 
one or another of these figures will be observed to occupy almost every 
varying position " Charles' Wain " takes during the twenty-four 
hours. Also it will be observed that when two figures occur in the 
same group, their broad ends point to, or nearly to, the opposite 
points of the compass. The remaining ninety barrows of the sixteen 
groups which I have explored, occur singly and in numbers up to five 
or more, the figure which they were intended to form being undeter- 
minable. Even after the many undoubted removals of the barrows 
in this neighbourhood, we find the same figure too distinct, and its 
occurrence far too frequent to be considered accidental. 
