AT GRUNDSTONE LAW. 3) 
connected with the battle between King Oswald and Cedwalla, 
which it is not necessary here to enter into. He found, a little 
below the surface, and lying on a slab of stone, which was placed 
above the covering stones of the cist, the remains of a skeleton, 
which have not been preserved. He also broke into the cist, but 
did not disturb the contents. 
The tumulus is formed of stones and earth, and on opening it, 
when the level of the original surface of the ground was reached, 
an oblong cist was discovered, hollowed out of the limestone 
rock, and in part lined with sandstone slabs. The cist, which lay 
east and west, was six feet in length, two feet nine inches-in 
width, and two feet three inches in height. On the north side 
was one lining stone of sandstone, which did not occupy the 
whole of the side; on the west side was also one stone, similarly 
placed; on the south were four stones, whilst the east end was 
formed of the limestone rock alone. It was covered with four 
large sandstone slabs, about eight feet in length and eight inches 
in thickness. Within this cist were found the remains of two 
bodies, of which a full description is given in this paper. The 
more complete one was lying on its left side, with the legs 
doubled up, the head being at the east end of the cist. The 
bones of the second body, which were few in number, were lying 
irregularly in the cist ; one of them, the radius, a bone of the 
fore arm, was standing against the south side of the cist. The 
question here suggests itself, were not these bones of the second 
body the remains of the skeleton found by Mr. Coulson above 
the cist? Mr. Coulson is quite certain he placed none of them 
in the cist; but it is possible that, whilst taking some away, he 
may have put some into the cist and forgotten that he had done 
so; the bone standing upright against the side of the tomb seems 
to point to an introduction of that bone posteriorly to the decay of 
the body to which it belonged. On the whole it appears most 
probable that these fragmentary bones are part of the skeleton 
which was interred above the cist. On the other hand, all the 
bones were imbedded in a loamy matter, which had no doubt 
been carried into the cist by the percolation of water through 
the joints of the cover, and therefore it may be argued that the 
