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present in 107, more than GO of these contained only sepul- 

 chral urns, intended to receive the ashes of the dead, and 

 certainly never meant to hold food. So far, however, as 

 stone implements are concerned, I must confess that Sir E. C. 

 Hoare appears to have overlooked the ruder instruments and 

 weapons. I will, therefore, rely principally on the evidence 

 afforded by the researches of Mr. Bateman and Mr. Greenwell.* 



Although a large number of the interments described by 

 Mr. Bateman had been already examined, there were 297 

 which had not been previously disturbed, and though he 

 carefully mentions even the rudest bit of chipped flint, no 

 less than 100 of these were without any implement at all, 

 either of stone or metal, and the drinking-vessels and food- 

 vases were only about 40 in number. Moreover, lest it 

 should be supposed that these ill-provided interments were 

 those of poor persons or enemies, we will leave all these out 

 of consideration. This we can easily do. We may be sure 

 that these tumuli, which must have required much labour, 

 were only raised in honour of the rich or great; though 

 they may have served, and, no doubt, often did serve after- 

 wards, as burial-places for the poor. But it is almost always 

 easy to distinguish the primary interment ; for though there 

 are some few cases in which the original occupant has been 

 ignorniniously ejected from his grave to make room for a 

 successor, these instances are rare, and can generally be 

 detected, while the secondary interments are usually situated 

 either above the first, or on the sides of the tumulus. The 

 same feeling which made our ancestors prefer to bury their 

 dead in a pre-existing tumulus, generally prevented them 

 from desecrating the earlier interments. 



In the following tables, then, I have recorded the primary 



* Since the third edition of this prising a number of barrows in 

 work, Mr. Greenwell has published addition to those mentioned in the 

 the results of his explorations, com- following table. 



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