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arranged as not to leave more than 3 to 6 feet between any two 

 of them. There remain from 150 to 200 of them, known as 

 the " Danes' Graves." The form is circular, with an average 

 diameter of 18 feet, and an elevation from 2 to 3 feet. 



In August, 1849, six of the tumuli were opened. Each was 

 found to consist of the chalk of the district, mixed with a small 

 proportion of earth. A few scattered nodules of the decom- 

 posed iron pyrites, which occur in the chalk, were also found. 

 In the centre of the first tumulus was a skeleton, having the 

 head to the north and feet to the south j it was laid on the face, 

 with the limbs doubled beneath the trunk ; the bones of the 

 arms, forearms, and of the legs and thighs, were found side by 

 side ; the hands and face, elbows and knees, and the feet and 

 hips, being severally in contact. Close to the skull were the 

 fragments of a vessel of rude earthenware, about a pint in 

 capacity ; it is of a grey colour, and is composed of clay with 

 numerous fragments of chalk and calcareous spar. It was of 

 cylindrical form, widening towards the mouth, with a projecting 

 rim at the bottom. It had been imperfectly baked, and probably 

 made on the wheel. In No. 2, was a skeleton laid in the same 

 position and direction as the preceding skeleton. Close to the 

 skull was a broken urn of the same general character and com- 

 position as the former example, except being of a black colour 

 and very fragile. Its shape seems to have been somewhat 

 globular. On opening No. 3, a skeleton only was found in the 

 same contracted position, with the head to the south south-west, 

 and the feet to the north-north-east, laid on the left side with 

 the face to the west. In the fourth tumulus, a skeleton was dis- 

 covered placed in a directly opposite position to No. 3, viz., 

 with the head to north-north-west, and facing the west. A 

 second skeleton, lying in the same contracted position on the 

 right side, with the head to the north and face to the west, was 

 met with. Besides a piece of iron much corroded, of a flat and 

 semicircular form, beneath the body, no other remains were 

 seen. The sixth barrow was a large one, 5 feet high and 25 

 feet in diameter ; after a most careful examination no vestige of 

 interment or other deposit could be found. 



