86 PRE-IIISTORIC ARCILEOLOGY OF EAST DEVON.

found together in groups, but singly, and on elevated ground. The primary interment in these was by simple inhumation, and, as no object of metal has been found in them, they are referred to the Stone Age. Of the round barrow, examples of each of the three modifications of form that I have men- tioned are found in the neighbourhood of Iloniton. With one exce})tion, all the barrows on Broad Down and Gittishani Hill are l)ovl-.sha]>ed ; the exception occurs in the southern- most member of the group at Broad Down, which is a good example of the form known as the disc-shaped barrow ; it is about 120 ft. in diameter, 4 ft. in perpendicular height, flat on the top, and presents the appearance of an inverted shal- low dish. At Buckcrell Knapp, about three miles west of Honiton, are some striking examples of the bell-shaped barrow. Of the group of barrows at Broad ])own several have now undero:one a careful investigation. The result of the exca- vation of three of them I have already described in detail.^ Upon the occasion of the meeting of the British Association in Exeter in 3 869, an excursion was arranged to Gittishani Hill, when, by jiermission of 11. jMarkcr, Esq., two barrows, situate at the northern extremity of the group, were opened in the presence of the visitors. The first was, to all appear- ance, a large and i)erfect tumulus ; it measured about GO ft. in diameter, and 5 It. in perpendicular height at the apex of the mound. We were, however, disappointed on ascertaining by digging that it had been previously disturbed, and that the interment, whatever it may have been, had been removed. AVe found oidy the fragments common to all spoliated bar- rows, namely, a few ciumbliiig bits of burnt bones, some flakes of flint, one or two shards of coarse i)ottery, some round pebbles that liad Immh j)i-obably used as sling-stones, pieces of ha'malitc, fr;iL:iiients of cliarcoal, rough stones, such as are common on the .surface of the uiicidtivatcd ground, and many of which had acfi'iircd a giri/cd apj)caranco l)y tho vitrifying of their surfaces, and otherwise bearing marks of the action of lire. A (^ueeii Anne's shilling, jirobably cist in when the contents of tin- barrow were abstracted, was ' TrainuK-'tioiiM of tlio Duvonitliiru IIiIh Jnuriinl, vol. xxv. p. 'J!).'i, wIkmo iIio AMt(><:i»ti><ti, vol. ii. |). *ir.), iilikU! ii. |i'>M»il>ilily lli.il it may liavi; Mcivvd tut

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