238 TT7MT7LI OF THE NORTH DISTRICT. 



R. C. Hoare hoTrever, in describing the ''twin barrows" 

 which are figured in his work, concludes that one was 

 honoured with the sepulcliral deposit, and the other only with 

 the ashes of the funeral pile. 



In the year 1854, in the course of breaking up some 

 rough heath land for cultivation, about half a mile from the 

 Grange, it was found desirable to remove an old Barrow, and 

 cart the contents over the ground. On arriving at the extreme 

 outside towards the North-East, and with not more than 

 eighteen inches of earth covering them, the labourers unex- 

 pectedly came upon three urns placed triangularly about a 

 y£ird apart. Two of them were very much broken, either 

 from the effect of time, or the proximity to the surface, to 

 which the inadvertence of the workmen also contributed. 

 These urns appeared to be of much the same size, about 

 twenty inches in height, composed of black, sun-dried pottery, 

 and full of burnt bones, in which the roots of the heath had 

 grown, making the whole mass extremely hard. The third 

 urn was nearly perfect when it was taken up : there was no 

 ornament of any kind upon it. Between the urns was a de- 

 posit of bones, unburnt, principally the leg and ann bones ; 

 these were covered over with thin Purbeck paving stones, not 

 shaped in any form, but laid flat over them. The whole 

 rested on a rough paved floor of large flints, laid carefully 

 flat over the space occupied by the urns. The barrow was 

 about six feet high, and of considerable size. It was composed 

 entirely of earth brought from the adjoining heath. The 

 centre showed no symptom of any burial having taken place 

 there." The circumstance of the sepulture having been made 

 at the extreme North-East side is worthy of remark. 



JOHN H. AUSTEN. 



