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NEAR ULEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 317 in average width, and five feet in height. The walls of this o-allery are formed of large slabs of stone, of irregular shape, set into the ground on their edges. ]Iost of these are about five feet high, and from three to five feet broad. The}' are General Grouud-plan of the Cliambored Tumulus at Uleybury. Scale, 30 feet to an inch. of a rough oolitic stone, full of shells, and must have been brought, it is said, from a part of the Cotswolds, about three miles distant : none of them present any traces of the chisel or other implement. Considerable spaces between the large stones are filled up with a dry walling of small stones (corn-brash), such as form the body of the cairn, and may have been obtained near the spot. The roof is formed of large slabs of stone, which are laid across, and rest on the uprights. There are four of these upright slabs on each side of the gallery, and two pairs placed at right angles, projecting into the interior in such a manner as to divide it into three portions of unequal length. The first of these divisions is about two and a half feet within the entrance ; the second, about eight feet further to the west, and about ten feet from the upright stone which closes in the gallery at this end. On each hand of the second projecting stone, on the south side of the gallery, are the entrances to two chambers, the first being about two, and the second two and a half feet wide. These side chambers are of an irregular