162 THE TUMULI OP THE CHALK RANGE. 



which lay on its left side, with the head towards the north, the 

 face consequently looking to the east, the arms were folded across 

 the body, so that the hands rested at the knees which were so 

 tightly gathered up that the skeleton occupied a space of only 

 thirty five inches in length by sixteen in width. The thigh bone 

 measured eighteen inches in length, giving a height of six feet 

 one inch. Upon a careful examination of the vertebral column, 

 I found it to be nearly straight. The six lower vertebrse were 

 undisturbed, and at regular distances from each other of a quarter 

 of an inch, which is the thickness of the cartilage. But between 

 the sixth and seventh there was an interval of an inch, and be- 

 tween the seventh and eighth of an inch and a quarter. The 

 three next vertebrae touched each other, and from the eleventh, 

 the column became evenly curved. Near the head was placed a 

 piece of the antler of an old stag, which bore the mark of a cut- 

 ting tool, and several other pieces were amongst the lumps of 

 chalk. I did not observe any pottery. 



On the 25th of August, I proceeded to examine the second 

 barrow, which is situated at the east angle of the group. It 

 measured fifty paces in diameter, and appeared to have been 

 previously opened ; but, upon sinking a roomy shaft, the stratum 

 of mouldy earth occurred at a short depth beneath its apex, 

 which proved that it had not, and at the depth of three and a 

 half feet was the skeleton of an infant, which occupied a space 

 of only one foot in diameter. It rested upon the native chalk, at 

 about one foot east of the centre of the barrow, and at the edge 

 of (what seemed to be) a cist, of four feet diameter from east to 

 west, three feet from north to south, and three feet deep beneath 

 the surrounding level. No remains were discovered in it, al- 

 though at a short distance, on the north side of the centre, at two 

 feet deep were a few human bones, with a jaw bone, and portions 

 of a broken urn, (pi. xv, fig. 1,) which had evidently been of large 

 dimensions, about twelve inches high, by ten in diameter. Three 

 inches below the lip, was a shoulder half an inch in depth, the 

 intermediate space being ornamented by incisions or scratches 

 half an inch long. Similar scratches, in a zigzag, ran round the 

 edge of the lip, which was three quarters of an inch thick. 

 Three inches below the shoulder there was a bulge ornamented 

 with a single course of the thumb and finger pattern. Nearer 

 to the surface, beneath several thin sand-stones were portions of 



