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Thurnam, there was a boundary wall of rubble stone from two to three feet high, with large upright blocks of stone placed at intervals, forming a peristyle like those surrounding the topes of India. Dr. Thurnam^[1] calls attention to the fact that, according to Aristotle, the Iberian people were in the habit of placing as many obelisks

Fig. 104.—Plan of Long Barrow at Uley, Gloucestershire.

round the tomb of the dead warrior as he had slain enemies; and it is not without interest that a structure

1. "Ancient British Barrows," Archæologia, xlii. p. 211.