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REVIEWS. 
BRITISH BARROWS.* 
T HIS excellent work contains a full account of the examination of more 
than two hundred and thirty sepulchral mounds, belonging to some period 
before the occupation of Britain by the Romans. The harrows, examined 
by Canon Greenwell himself, were principally (123) on the Wolds of the 
East Riding of Yorkshire ; but some were in the North (37) and West (2) 
Ridings, two in Cumberland, several in Westmoreland (19) and Northum- 
berland (31) ; one in Durham, and five in Gloucestershire. In preliminary 
observations on each district in which these mortuary mounds occur, the 
author has given some account of the natural characters of the soil, and of 
discoveries made by other explorers. An elaborate table, occupying pages 
458-478, shows the localities of these barrows, the nature of the interments 
in them, whether primary or secondary, placed in a grave or not, and burnt 
or unburnt ; also the position of body, and the nature and material of the 
wea.pons, implements, vessels, pins, buttons, and ornaments, deposited with 
the interments. 
The description of fourteen Long Barrows, opened by the author in 
Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Gloucestershire, follows ; with special treat- 
ment of the characters and probable history of these peculiar sepulchres. 
Based on the varied and accurate knowledge of details obtained in this 
careful opening of tumuli, and enlarged by extensive reading, and by friendly 
intimacy with antiquaries at home and abroad, an Introduction, compris- 
ing what is known about these and other moimds, precedes the descriptive 
record of the excavations. Of the many interesting subjects treated of in 
this resumd of what is known of the old Flint-folk and Bronze-people of 
Yorkshire, the following are first discussed : — the form and material of the 
barrows, the stone circles enclosing them, the circular holes in their floors, 
the flint flakes and potsherds so abundantly mixed .with their heaps, — the 
manner of burial of the corpse on the ground, in hollows, or in cists, — of 
burnt bodies in urns or otherwise, — successive burials in the same barrow, — 
* “ British Barrows : A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral . 
Mounds in various parts of England, by William Greenwell, M. A., F.S.A. 
Together with descriptions and figures of skulls, general remarks on Pre- 
historic Crania, and an appendix, by George Rolleston, M.D., F.R.S.” 8vo. 
“ Clarendon Press,” Oxford, 1877. With numerous wood engravings. 
