42 ON THE TUMULI OF ST. ADHELM's HEAD DISTRICT. 



space between this and No. 1 was two feet. 



No. 8. A kistvaen, precisely similar to No. 2., and covered 

 in the same manner with thin slabs. Its measurements inside 

 were, four feet nine inches in length, fourteen inches in width at 

 the head, sixteen inches at the middle, and nine inches at the 

 feet. It contained a skeleton, which measured only four feet in 

 length, with the head resting on the left shoulder. The body, 

 and knees were slightly bent, so as to fit the cist, which was 

 shortened by the foot-stone being placed in such a manner as to 

 leave a space of about eight inches, partially enclosed by the two 

 side stones. This space was carefully covered with a thin piece 

 of stone, but contained no remains. In the skull of this deposit, 

 was a hole over the left ear, which appeared to have been caused 

 by a blow. The intermediate space between this and No. 2. 

 was three feet. 



No 4. At the distance of two feet from the southernmost side 

 of No. 3, with its eastern angle touching the centre of the bar- 

 row, was an interment of a wholly different character from the 

 three described above. In stead of being carefully built 

 round, it consisted simply of a thin slab of Kimmeridge coal, o or 

 shale, which measured three feet six inches by two feet three 

 inches, having a neatly drilled hole of an inch in diameter in 

 its centre, placed in a slanting direction, and rested upon a slab 

 of stone, which was set up edgeways and supported it, thus 

 protecting the two skeletons which lay beneath ; the one, that of 



a field in the Parish of Largton, are occasionally turned np by the plough, 

 In the tenth volume of the Archaeological Journal, is an account of anti- 

 quities obtained from Wangford, near Brandon, in Suffolk, in which it 

 is stated, that, " amongst the sand have often been found heaps of chip- 

 ped flints, containing arrow heads in every stage of preparation, from 

 the rudest to the most exquisitely finished specimen." Similar fragments 

 of flint have been also found in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Der- 

 byshire. Sir K. C. Hoare says "It appears to have been a common 

 custom to insert in the Urns, lance and arrow heads of flint, both ready 

 chipped and finely finished, as well as others in a rough state. 



9 Pieces of Kimmeridge Coal frequently occur, scattered amongst the 

 material of the barrows of this immediate neighbourhood. Its presence 

 seems to have been the lesult of design, rather than of chance, and shows 

 that some importance attached to it; as may be conceived to have been 

 the case in other districts with regard to Sandstone, which we find made 

 use ot in barrows which are situated far distant from its native rock ; 

 as, for instance, in the Badbury and Deverel barrows; as also in Dru- 

 idical structures, as StonehengCf Sfc, where it is denominated Druid 

 Sandstone, 



