Una guida per l'antichità dell'età del bronzo nel dipartimento della British e antichità medievali . plesof questo tipo contengono resti umani che erano stati bruciati sul posto in un modo elaborati e quelli nel Gloucestershire andnorth Wiltshire coperto camere di pietra in cui bodieswere incombusti depositato, è evidente che entrambi i gruppi sono più vecchi di theRound carriole da -svhich la presente serie di ceramica è derivato. 54 DESCRIZIONE DI CASI 21-30 vi sono tuttavia entro certi dei tumuli circolari bara-recipienti sagomati (pietra ciste) per il corpo di incombusti (figg. 27, 28);e anche enclo

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A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . plesof this type contain human remains that were cremated on thespot in an elaborate manner, and those in Gloucestershire andnorth Wiltshire covered stone chambers in which unburnt bodieswere deposited, it is evident that both groups are older than theRound barrows from -svhich the present series of pottery is derived. 54 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 21-30 There are, however, within certain of the circular mounds coffin-shaped receptacles (stone cists) for the unburnt body (figs. 27, 28);and also enclosing-stones at or inside the margin of the mound(fig. 28) that recall the stone chamber and the ring-fence of theLong barrows. Canon Greenwell remarks that a very close con-nection thus appears to exist between the Long barrows and certainof the Eound barrows of Britain which also agree in the absence ofmetal and the scarcity of pottery vessels in association with theinterments. Attention has already been directed to the strikingdifference in the character of the skulls found respectively in the. Firi, 2(). — Drinking-cup, Brandon, SuHulk. j Long and Eound barrows (p. 19), and it is reasonable to supposethat the drinking-cups, which are imdoubtedly the earliest formof vessels from the Eound barrows, are to be referred to thetransition period when the population was mixed, and the long-skulled aborigines were giving way before short-skulled immi-grants from the Continent. In this connection fundamental differences in the disposal of thedead must also be noticed. The Long barrows contain both burntand unburnt remains in different localities, but in the Eoundbarrows not only do sepulchral vessels of pottery appear, Isut incases of cremation the ashes of the dead were deposited eitherin a hollow in the floor of the grave or in a cinerary urn. Again, ROUND BARROWS 55 the unburnt body was laid on one side, right or left indifferently, and directed towards any point of the compass,

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