114 THE TUMULI OF THE CHALK RANGE. 



surface, lying upon its back, with the feet towards the east, or 

 slightly to the south of east. The face was turned to the south, 

 and the head raised above the level of the breast, as it would 

 have been if resting upon a pillow. From its small stature it 

 might have been the skeleton of a woman, as it measured only 

 five feet in length, the thigh bone being sixteen dnd a half inches, 

 and the tibia thirteen ; the skull was small in all its parts. The 

 front teeth in both the upper and under jaw were gone, and 

 those [which remained were much worn, as of an aged person. 

 Proceeding with the trench in a northerly direction, we came 

 upon the skull of another skeleton, at two feet six inches from 

 the feet of the last, lying in the same direction, but with the left 

 hand across the body. It was apparently that of an old man, of 

 nearly six feet in height, the thigh bone being seventeen and a 

 half inches long. The teeth were very much worn. The skull 

 bore the same character. Throughout the barrow the customary 

 mouldiness was observable. Upon removing these deposits, we 

 came upon a stratum of large flints carefully packed together 

 without any earth, which continued to the depth of four feet 

 from the apex of the barrow. In the centre of this, was a depo- 

 sit of skeletons. The first was doubled up, with one knee nearly 

 touching the chin, the other three inches from it. The head was 

 towards the south-south-east, but resting upon the left shoulder, 

 and the face looking to the west. The teeth were much worn. 

 It is very remarkable that the lower jaw lay at the back of the 

 skull ; and by it the frontal section from the central orbit of a 

 skull of a child: it appeared precisely as if it had been sawn off, 

 and resembled a shallow bason. We could find no further 

 portion of this skull, with the exception of a few teeth of a child 

 of about seven years of age, and also some small leg or arm bones. 

 It will be remembered that I mentioned at page the discovery 

 of the section of a skull; and Sir R. C. Hoare also mentions the 

 circumstance of finding, in a barrow near Stone Henge, "a piece 

 of a skull, about five inches broad, that had been apparently 

 sawn off." 



But to proceed with the description ; immediately beneath, if 

 not between the legs of this last skeleton was a skull, which 

 seemed to be without any other bones, and near it the leg bones 

 doubled up of another skeleton, lying with the head towards 

 the north west; the skull of which was protected by a sand- 



