DESCRIPTION OF A BARROW AT WEST KEXNET. 



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In the chamber were four skeletons, two of which appear to 

 have been buried in a sitting posture. In different parts of 



FIG. 147. FIG. 148. FIG. 149. 



FIG. 150. 



Flint Implements from the Tumulus at West Kennet. 



the chamber were found nearly 300 flakes, three or four flint 

 cores, a whetstone, a scraper, part of a bone pin, a bead of 

 Kimmeridge shale, and several heaps of fragments of pottery 

 (figs. 151 156) belonging apparently to no less than 50 dif- 

 ferent vessels, and all made by hand, with one doubtful excep- 

 tion. No trace of metal was discovered. The two pieces 

 (figs. 155, 156) were found apart from the rest, and may, 

 perhaps, be of later origin. 



The large tumuli of Brittany, most of which have recently 

 been opened, have afforded several other instances of the 

 same kind. Thus the great Mont St. Michel, at Carnac, 

 which is no less than 380 feet in length, and 190 feet broad, 



