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ANCIENT BRITISH SKULL.
FROM A CHAMBERED LONG BARROW AT WEST KBNNET, NORTH WILTS.
(BEGION OE THE DOBTJNI, TEMP. PTOLEMYEI, A.U. 120.)
Cranium from a Chambered Long Barrow, West Kennet.—quarter-she.
ONE of the most remarkable chambered barrows of England is that at West Kennet, near the
great stone cu-cles of Abury, which was explored by the writer, in the summer of 1859*.
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Plan of the Chambered Long Barrow at West Kenmt.—Scale, 60 feet to mi inch.
Tlie tumulus, which is one of the longest known, measui-es 335 feet in length, 75 feet in width
* A fully illustoated account of this tumulus will be found the immediate neighbourhood of Abu,y. Some, like that called
•n the A,-chceolog.a, vo xxx™,. p 405. There are several of Millbarrow, have been levelled within the memorv of ma o
these long barrows, with traees of chambers at the east end, in others, the ruinous chambers now alone remain. '
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