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A third series of barrows are also intelligible. In these 
the body has undergone cremation, and the bones or ashes 
have been placed in a rude urn ; and it is remarkable that in 
this class of interments a circle of stones has been erected 
within the circumference of the barrow, precisely similar to 
the stone circles that are so common on the surface ; and in 
some instances the circle of stones has been found to enclose 
several cists. In another similar class of burials at Ford, in 
Northumberland, many cists have been found in one tumulus, 
with calcined bones in them, covered with a flat stone of the 
same kind as the cist is composed, and a very slight mound 
of earth raised above them, but without any circle of stones 
round it. These have contributed jet beads, a piece of bronze, 
and a flint weapon of the description which is represented at 
Hunter, near Bridlington, by the best class of flint imple- 
ments that are found in England. This tumulus is, without 
doubt, a relic of the last of the flint-using tribes in Britain. 
I wish here to draw your attention to the proof just 
mentioned that Druidical worship cannot have been connected 
with the stone circles, which are so numerous in this as well 
as other countries. If you remember, the Druidical cere- 
monies are not mentioned, in any ancient author, as having 
been performed in the great stone circles, while they are 
expressly stated to have been performed in the deep recesses 
of the oak forests ; which is strong negative proof that they 
were disused and neglected, and had no connection with the 
prevailing religious customs of that period, and that the 
religious faith with which they were connected had been 
superseded by the Druidical worship ; and when we find 
there were no stone circles round the earliest long- shaped 
barrows, or surrounding the most primitive round barrows, 
and that there can be no question that there were circles of 
stones intentionally placed within the circumference of the 
barrows that were raised by the third tribe of people, we 
