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NEAR ULEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 321 been deposited in proof of the hunter's skill. Tlie gallery and chanibcr were filled with small stones and rubbish, among which were the remains of no fewer than thirteen skeletons : nearly all of these had been more or less dis- turbed. In the gallery, about three feet from the entrance, and just within the first pair of projecting stones, were the remains of two skeletons, one of which had been much displaced, but the other had evidently been buried in a sitting, or rather squatting posture, and had fallen forwards in decay. The feet were found under the hips, the thighs on the legs, the vertebra) and ribs in a horizontal position between the legs ; and the skull, with the summit reversed, in front of the knees. A third skeleton was found near the centre of the gallery. Among the stones and rubbish at the west end, were some bones and teeth of a gramini- vorous animal ; and on the flooi', a little more to the east, the remains of three human skeletons : one that of a male, another of a female ; the third, of which the sex is not stated, had been interred on the back, w^itli the head to the east ; the bones of these had been somewhat displaced. In the side chamber (No. 1,) were the remains of four skeletons, one at least, as was evident from the form of the pelvis, being that of a female. No mode of burial could account for the irregular position in which the bones of these skeletons were found. Above these, and mixed with the rubbish which covered them, were some pieces of earthenware and char- coal, a small vessel described as " resemUhuj a Roman lachry- matory," and a few scattered bones of some animal ; the remains, possibly, of a funeral sacrifice or feast. In cham- ber No. 2, which, as has been stated, was found closed up with dry walling, were some pieces of pottery and charcoal, and a few human bones, but not an entire skeleton. Near the highest part of the cairn, within about six inches of the surface, and nearly over the side chamber No. o, was a skeleton lying in a direction about N.E. and S.W., with which were three Roman coins of the third brass of the lower empire, and described as of the three sons of Constantino the Great. When the cairn was recently re-opened, a heap of human bones, most of them much broken, was found at the west end of the gallery. Altogether there were fragments of ei.irht or nine skulls. Amono; the other bones there were