148 MODELS OF IMPLEMENTS SOMETIMES BURIED. 



interments only ; the first column contains the name of the 

 tumulus, the succeeding nine indicate the disposition of the 

 corpse, and the articles found therewith, while the last is 

 reserved for any special remarks. Out of 139 interments 

 examined by Mr. Bateman, only 105 had any implements or 

 weapons, and only 35 were accompanied by any pottery that 

 can have held either food or drink. Moreover, if we examine 

 the nature of the implements which were deposited with the 

 dead, we shall find that they are far from representing com- 

 plete sets of tools or ornaments. The rarity of bronze in 

 tombs is, perhaps, not surprising ; but to men so practised as 

 our predecessors, it must have been an easy matter to make 

 a rude arrow-head, or a flint flake. Yet some of the corpses 

 are accompanied by but one single arrow-head, others by a 

 small flint flake ; some, again, by a single scraper. It must 

 also be observed that many of the stone objects found by 

 Mr. Bateman are much ruder than might be supposed from 

 the names he has given them. 



In the table with which Mr. Greenwell has been so good 

 as to furnish me, and which shows the primary deposits in 102 

 tumuli examined by him, it will be observed that only thirty 

 contained any implement, the other 72 being altogether 

 bare.* There is not a single case in which the corpse was de- 

 posited in that extended position which seems to us so natural. 



Thus, then, there seems to have been no intention of de- 

 positing with each corpse a complete set of implements. The 

 barrow on Cronkstone Hill, for instance, contained the 

 skeleton of a man, with whom had been buried the burnt 

 bones of some one, probably a slave, or, perhaps, a wife, who 

 had been sacrificed at his grave, and yet the only implement 

 found with him was a "circular instrument," probably a 



* Mr. Greenwcll's subsequent had implements of stone, 16 of 

 researches have tended to confirm bronze, and 4 of bone, 

 tliis. Out of 379 burials, 63 only 



