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A N C I E N T BRITISH SKULL.
FEOM CHAMBERED TUMULUS AT ULEY, GLOUCESTEESHIEE.
(EEGION OP THE DOBUNI, TEMP, PTOLEM^I, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Tumulus at Uley.—Quarter-size.
THE chambered tnimilus of Uley, in Gloucestershire, has a remarkably fine position on the bro^iof
the Cotswolds, overlooking the vale of the Severn, and within a quarter of a mile of the well-
General ground-plan of the Chambered Tumulus near TUey.—Scale ZO feet to an inch.
known hill-fortress of Uleybury. It was opened in the year 1821, and re-opened in 1854, under
the direction of Mr. E. A. Freeman and the writer, on which occasion an accurate account of
the tumulus and its contents was drawn up *.
• This was in part compUed from a MS. account furnished man, in 1821. See Archaiological Journal, vol. xi. p. 313. The
to the writer by T. B. L. Baker, Esq., of Hardwick near Glou- rare and peculiar character of this tumulus seems to demand
cester, which had been drawn up by the father of that gentle- the somewhat minute description in the text.
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