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to have been found in barrows on Exmoor, Haldon, and at East 
Worlington. The evidence in these cases may not be quite so 
clear as we could wish ; but no reasonable doubt can attach to the 
discovery by Mr. W. C. Borlase of a coin of Constantine the 
Great, with other Roman coins, in a barrow at Morvah Hill, 1 of 
the contemporaneous deposition of which with the interment that 
gentleman is absolutely convinced. 
At the other end of the series we may place the chambered 
barrows already noted; with the extended interments at Lundy 
Island, the Giants' Graves of Scilly, and a few rare examples 
of contracted burial, as at Trevelgue, 2 Trethill, 3 with possibly 
an interment near Old Dunscombe, Sidmouth, 4 in a sort of 
cave in a bank, the skull of which was intact, but unfortunately 
has been again buried, and so lost. The enormous preponder- 
ance of cremation in this district deprives us of the evidence 
of race which the preservation of skulls would afford ; and this, 
although the barrows of the two counties of Devon and 
Cornwall yet extant may be counted probably by thousands, and 
the results are known of the examination, more or less fully set 
forth, of some hundreds. 
But Barrow-Builders have left us relics of life as well as death. 
Dartmoor, teste Mr. Lukis, is unrivalled in this country in the 
extent and character of its rude stone monuments 5 — its menhirs, 
lines, circles, huts, trackways, pounds. Mr. Fergusson has 
assigned our megalithic memorials to the first ten centuries of the 
Christian era, and made even Stonehenge of post-Koman date. 6 
1 Nmnia Cornubice, p. 251. 
2 Ibid. pp. 80-90. There were two, within long kists, one associated with 
a beautifully-made polished stone axe hammer. 
3 The interment at Trethill, for the discovery and description of which we 
are indebted to Mr. C. Spence Bate, f.r.s., has a unique interest for us in the 
presence of a food vessel in the kist, and its exact correspondence in detail 
with interments in the High Peak, Derbyshire. 
4 Trans. Devon. Assoc. " Barrow Keport," vol. xii. p. 148. — P. 0. 
Hutchinson. 
5 Vide his report to Society of Antiquaries. 
6 Sir John Lubbock {Pre-Hist. Times, p. 120) has shown that the argu- 
ment for this, founded upon the assumption of Silbury Hill being iqyon a 
Roman road, is erroneous. 
