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work was resumed with the aid of the Rector of North Tidworth, 
the Rev. W. H. Cave Browne, Arthur Stallard, Esq., and two 
labouring men. With this strong force we dug a wide trench to 
the centre, carefully preserving the surface level. Flint chippings 
and small fragments of coarse pottery were occasionally met with. 
At a depth of three feet eight inches from the summit of the 
barrow, we found two layers, six inches apart, of wood ashes and 
burnt straw, in a kind of basin seven feet in diameter, as if beacon 
fires had been ignited there. The upper layer was the larger one, 
and the thickness of ashes was two inches. At a depth of ten 
feet from the surface and at a distance of twelve feet from the 
centre, was a layer of pounded chalk, eight inches thick, resting 
upon what we at first supposed was the original surface mould. 
But on piercing this mould, which was four inches thick, we came 
to a cist or grave dug in the chalk, four feet six inches long, two 
feet six inches wide, and one foot six inches deep. In it was the 
skeleton of a young person, with two urns of different sizes, at its feet. 
The larger urn, which is of a coarse description of ware, (plate iii. fig. 
2) rudely ornamented, contained burnt human bones; and the smaller 
urn,(plateiii. fig. 3) which is about five and a half inches high, ofa finer 
ware, and more elaborately ornamented with dotted lines, and of that 
character which has been usually designated a drinking cup, was 
empty; and both were on their sides. The skeleton! was probably 
that of a female child of about 6 years of age, 4 feet high, and was 
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} We are indebted to Dr. Thurnam for the following remarks on the cranium 
of this skeleton. [Kds.] 
‘The skull, which wants the facial bones, is that of a child of about three 
or four years of age. It has a cubic capacity of about 66 cubic inches, or 1081 
cubic centimetres, The circumference measures 18,2, the greatest length 6.3, 
the greatest breadth 5.1, and the height 4.9 inches. If the length of the skull 
is taken as 100, the breadth will be found to be in the proportion of nearly .81 
to the length. This brings it within the brachycephalous or rounded type, 
such as is generally met with in the round barrows of this part of England. 
The parietal tubers are very prominent. There is considerable flatness of the 
lower part of the occiput, perhaps resulting from the pressure of a cradle board, 
_ the use of which is known to produce this effect in certain tribes of North 
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American Indians, Inspection however suffices to show that the brachycephalic 
type in this skull is strictly innate, and that the actual form can only in a very 
secondary degree be due to flattening of the occiput.” 
