112 THE TUMULI OP THE CHALK RANGE. 



left undisturbed and the cist refilled. A trench was then cut 

 from the centre in a south-easterly direction, and at a similar 

 radius of nine feet a second square cist was discovered about 

 eighteen inches beneath the surface, which measured three feet 

 eight inches in length, and two feet eight inches in width. It 

 was formed of stones set up edge ways, some of which were 

 sand stones supporting a covering of thin slabs. These however 

 had fallen in, and so completely crushed the upper portion of the 

 skeleton, that there remained only a layer of bone reduced to 

 powder. The body lay in the same direction as the preceeding, 

 but with a slight difference in the placing of the legs. They 

 were gathered up, with the knees towards the east, and the feet 

 to the west ; but the legs were not together, the right foot being 

 in the west corner or angle of the cist, whilst the left foot was 

 under the right knee. The head and feet were protected in like 

 manner, the former by a flag-stone two feet long and twenty 

 inches in diameter set up against it, and the latter by a sand- 

 stone of the same size. 



We now proceeded to examine beneath the first mentioned 

 deposit, which evidently rested upon carefully packed lumps of 

 chalk. Upon removing it we discovered that the centre of the 

 barrow was occupied by a cist of from eight to nine feet in 

 diameter, which proved to be nine and a half feet in depth. At 

 the bottom of it lying upon the native chalk was a skeleton, 

 over which lumps of chalk had been carefully packed, in 

 such a manner as to protect the body. Over these was 

 a layer of eaith containing pieces of burnt wood, about two 

 feet in thickness, and thinly coated over with clay. The skull 

 rested upon its back, but leant towards the left shoulder sup- 

 ported by the left hand. It was that of an old person, the teeth 

 being much worn. The right arm was bent across the breast, 

 the wrist supporting the left elbow and the hand bent down, as 

 was the case in the first described cist. The legs were so truly 

 doubled up that the heels touched the thigh bones. The whole 

 deposit occupied a space of three feet by two feet four inches, 

 and lay towards the same points of the compass as the two pre- 

 ceding. It was evidently the skeleton of a very large man, the 

 thigh bone measuring nineteen inches in length, and four inches 

 in circumference at the smallest part. The skull, which was 

 of large siz3, having been accidentally broken was measured, and 



