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By the Rev. W. C. Lukis. 95 

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Plan of Barrow No. 5. 
Showing positions of interments. TT. Trenches. 
of calcined human bones, without any pottery or implements of 
any kind. The bones had been placed on the slope of the original 
barrow, and chalk thrown over them whereby the mound had 
become enlarged. As we penetrated the mould of the original 
_ barrow we met with fragments of vessels, most of them being 

apparently portions of richly ornamented drinking cups, animal 
bones and teeth. At about 10 feet from the centre there was a 
stratum 4 inches thick, of dark mould, overlying the original sur- 
face chalk, in which were innumerable fragments of ornamented 
urns, charred animal bones, and flint chippings. This stratum ex- 
tended over an area of about 20 feet diameter. Allusion is made 
to discoveries of a similar kind in Mr. Bateman’s “Ten years 
diggings,” and an extract is there given from a communication 
by the President of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich to Sir H. Ellis : 
“in almost all the accounts of the opening of Pagan sepul- 
_ chres and Tumuli, mention is made of the discovery of fragments 
of pottery strewn in the soil, which appear to be portions of vessels 
similar to such as are often found by the side of the human re- 
