196 StoneJienge and its Barrows. 



floor of the barrow was a large oblong' cist^ 5 feet long, 4 feet wide, 

 and 'l^ deep, neatly cut in tlie chalk, and in it a skeleton, with 

 an inverted urn containing burnt bones, in its lap. " On removing 

 the urn and the skeleton, we found five more skeletons lying almost 

 side by side, two of which were young persons; and when we reached 

 the floor of the cist we found, what I consider to be the primary 

 interment, viz., two skeletons lying by the side of each other, with 

 their heads to the north, and both extremely well-preserved. One of 

 them was a tall and stout man. At their head was placed a drinking 

 cup. We had here positive proof that the two different modes of 

 burial had been practised in this barrow at different periods, and that 

 the urn was deposited at a period subsequent to all the other in- 

 terments, and was the third deposit. ^^ 



To the north of this group are two very small mounds, scarcely 

 elevated above the surface, which produced nothing worthy of notice. 



The first barrow that occurs on leaving the British villages, and 

 which is No. 1 on Sir Richard Hoare^s map of " Stonehenge and 

 its environs," contained a very large interment of burnt bones. No. 

 2 had been previously opened. No. 3 is a long or rather triangular 

 barrow, east and west, the broad end towards the east ; it measures 

 104 feet in length, 64 in width at the large end, 45 at the small end, 

 and does not exceed 3 or 4 feet in elevation. Shepherds had ex- 

 cavated the eastern end by making huts for shelter. A second section 

 at the west end produced two or three fragments of burnt bones. 

 ''We next observed a rude conical pile of large flints, imbedded in a 

 kind of mortar made of the marly chalk dug near the spot. This 

 rude pile was 4 or 5 feet in the base, and about 2 feet high, and was 

 raised upon a floor, on which had been an intense fire, so as to make 

 it red like brick. At first we conceived that this pile might have 

 been raised over an interment, but after much labour in removing 

 the greater part of it, we very unexpectedly found the remains of 

 the Briton below, and were much astonished at seeing several pieces 

 of burnt bones intermixed with the great masses of mortar.^' Sir E,. 

 Hoare left some of the mortar containing the burnt bones near the 

 top of the barrow, to satisfy the curiosity of any person who might 

 wish to examine it. On exploring this barrow farther to the east, 



