August, 1879, at Rochley and Oghourn. 69 



very fractured state ; it has however been successfuUj repaired, and 

 is now deposited in the Society's Museum. This urn contained the 

 bones of a young adult; they are in excellent preservation being 

 but slightly burnt, and have been replaced in the urn exactly as they 

 were found. 



The other urn (to the right in Plate II.) is 9J inches high, and 

 9j inches in diameter, and is in a beautifully perfect condition. It 

 was placed in a small chamber formed o£ four upright flat stones 

 with one over the top, and resembled a miniature kist-vaen. 

 Within it was a considerable quantity of wood-ashes, and human 

 bones, but so completely destroyed by the fire that it is impossible 

 to say what was the age or sex of the person. On the right-hand 

 were found the fragments of a small food- vessel, which, from the 

 worn appearance o£ the edges, had probably been broken before it 

 was deposited in the barrow (see woodcut) . Both the urns were in 

 an upright position not inverted. 



The primary interment was contained in a cist which was lined 

 and covered over with flat sarsen stones, and then filled up with 

 blocks of the same material to the ground level, over which 

 was piled the huge cairn described above. It was formed in the 

 chalk, below the natural level of the down, and was oval in 

 form, measuring in its long diameter 6 feet, and 4 feet transversely, 

 and about 3J feet in depth. It contained a skeleton in ex- 

 tremely good preservation lying horizontally on its right side^ 

 in a flexed position, with the head to the south, the knees drawn 

 up towards the trunk, and the hands covering the face. It was 

 placed on the bare chalk at the bottom of the cist, and was protected 

 from the superincumbent weight by a layer of flat sarsens, forming 

 a rude sarcophagus, as shown in the diagram. The carefully ar- 

 ranged structure of this barrow did not appear to have been disturbed 

 by the interment of the urns found, as described, in the great pile 

 of sarsen stones above the cist ; and some of the archaeologists who 

 were present were of opinion that these urns, containing perhaps the 

 ashes of relatives or dependents, were deposited on the occasion of 

 the burial of the great man whose skeleton was found in the cist 

 below. See " Archseologia/' vol. xliii., p. 457. 



