ABSTRACT
O f the foregoing, there is abundant evidence o f the use o f imple ments o f deer antler, and also o f scapulae, from Neolithic, Bronze Age, and later earthworks other than barrows, especially in the chalk areas. The use o f baskets can be inferred from the small quantities o f soil from different sources which so often give a lenticular stratification to the material o f the mound. The use o f inclined ramps, well attested in Egypt from the Old Kingdom onwards, might well have provided the only possible way o f placing heavy roof-slabs on the walls o f the
galleries and chambers o f chambered barrows. Evidence o f the im plements used in quarrying central graves and cists and digging the ditches surrounding barrows is also provided by the tool-marks on their sides, as at Bulford G.27 (Wilts.), where marks o f the antler pick were visible on the walls o f the chalk cist.
