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the turf. Hence it appears, that the method of making these 

 barrows was to dig up the turf for a great space round, till the 

 barrow was brought to its intended bulk. Then with the chalk, 

 dug out of the environing ditch, they powdered it all over. So that 

 for a considerable time, these barrows must have looked white : 

 even for some number of years. And the notion of sanctity annexed 

 to them, forbad people trampling on them, till perfectly settled and 

 turf'd over. Hence the neatness of their form to this day. At 

 the top or center of this barrow, not above three foot under the 

 surface, my Lord found the skeleton of the interred, perfect, of a 

 reasonable size, the head lying towards Stonehenge or northward.^' 

 The year following he began upon a barrow north of Stonehenge, 

 in that group south of the cursus. "T'is one of the double barrows 

 there ; and more easterly and lower of the two (No. 29 in Sir R. 

 Hoare^s map), likewise somewhat less. It was reasonable to believe 

 this was the sepulture of a man and his wife ; and that the lesser 

 was the female ; and so it prov'd, at least a daughter. "We made a 

 large cut on the top from east to west. After the turf taken off, 

 we came to the layer of chalk, as before, then fine garden mould. 

 About three foot below the surface, a layer of flints, humoring the 

 convexity of the barrow. These flints are gatber'd from the surface 

 of the down in some places, especially where it has been plowed. 

 This being about a foot thick rested on a layer of soft mould another 

 foot : in which was inclosed an urn full of bones. This urn was 

 of unbak'd clay, of a dark reddish colour : crumbled into pieces. 

 It had been rudely wrought with small mouldings round the verge 

 and other circular channels on the outside, with several indentures 

 between, made with a pointed tool. The bones had been burnt, and 

 crowded all together in a little heap, not so much as a hat crown 

 ^" would contain. The collar bone and one side of the under jaw are 

 graved in their true magnitude. It appears to have been a girl of 



about 14 years old Beads of all sorts, and in great 



number, of glass of divers colours, most yellow, one black, were 

 mix'd with the bones. Many single, many in long pieces, notched 

 between, so as to resemble a string of beads, and these were 

 generally of a blue colour. There were many of amber, of all 



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