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In digging a trench from the south point towards the centre 
we found two interments of burnt bones marked 3 and 4. In these 
eases the bones were not surrounded with flints; the fragments of 
skull bones at 8 showed the sutures distinctly ; and skull bones at 
4 were thinner. At a distance of about twelve feet further north 
we met with several flint chippings, potsherds of a similar character 
to those found in the eastern trench, and a granite muller or in- 
strument for pounding. At 5 was another collection of burnt 
ones ; at 6 was a large urn mouth downwards filled with the burnt 
bones of a full grown person; at 7 was a smaller urn empty, un- 
ornamented, resting on a mass of burnt bones. At 8 were the 
_ burnt bones of an old individual; and at 9 the burnt bones of a 
middle-aged person. No pottery accompanied them. In the west- 
ern trench nothing was discovered, and in the northern there was 
no trace of an interment, but we found an unburnt finger bone 
and two or three fragments of pottery. 
This closes the account of the exploration of this group in the 
_ order in which the barrows were examined. 
_ Before I describe the discoveries in detached barrows existing in 
_ the same parish, I must exhibit the mode of construction in the 
eases of barrows No. 4, 5, and 6; and a section of No. 5 will suffice 
to explain the other two. A is the centre of the barrow, where 

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Section of half Barrow No. 5, at Collingbourne Ducis. 
taal A. Surface level. 
the wooden coffin was placed which formed the primary interment. 
Over these remains, a heap of mould was piled to a height of eight 
feet six inches, with a diameter of sixty feet. From the base of 
this mound to the edge of the fosse, a distance of ten feet, there 
5 _ Was a mass of very compact pounded chalk, B, which encircled the 
mound. This appears to have been placed there for the purpose 
“of forming a footing to the chalk rubble, C, in which the secondary 
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