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CunningtoTi, but just below where he had left off" Sir R. Hoare dis- 

 covered a large rude sepulchral urn inverted over a pile of burnt 

 bones, amongst which was an elegant pair of ivory tweezers. No. 

 24 is a very flat barrow,' and contained the skeletons of an adult and 

 a child in a very shallow cist. It had been previously disturbed. 

 No. 25. A wide bowl-shaped barrow, contained, within a narrow cist, 

 a skeleton with its head towards the north, with a drinking cup by 

 its right side, and near it a neatly-formed pin or needle of bone. 

 No. 26, produced a large interment of burnt bones on the floor, 

 with a cone of jet, two oblong beads of the same substance, eighteen 

 of amber, and a very small cone of the same. No. 27. Previously 

 opened, appeared to have contained originally the skeletons of two 

 adults and two children. Round the arm of one of the adults was 

 an ornamented bracelet of bronze, now in the Stourhead Museum. 

 On approaching the Cursus, we find a numerous continuation of 

 barrows, flanking the southern side of it ; the first of these. No. 28, 

 was opened by Lord Pembroke, in the year 1722 ; as well as No. 29, 

 in 1723. Stukeley gives a description of the opening of the latter. 

 An urn, full of burnt bones, of unbaked clay, was found. The collar 

 bone, and one side of the under jaw, make it likely that they had be- 

 longed to a girl about 14 years of age. A great number of female 

 ornaments were mixed with the bones. They consisted of beads of 

 glass, yellow, blue, and black j many of amber, of all shapes and sizes, 

 and many of earth, of difierent shapes, size, and colour. One of the 

 button sort was covered with a thin film of pure gold. (See Stukeley's 

 " Stonehenge," p. 44, or "Ancient Wilts," i., 161, 162.) " Then 

 we opened the next barrow to it, enclosed in the same ditch, and 

 found at 14 inches deep the skeleton of a man." Convinced by ex- 

 perience that all interments found near the surface were subsequent 

 deposits, Mr. Cunnington, in 1803, explored the second tumulus. 

 At the depth of 6 feet he came to the floor of the barrow, which was 

 covered with ashes ; and on digging still further to the south, he 

 found a fine oblong cist, 18 inches deep, 15 inches wide, and 2 feet 

 long ; and in it a complete interment of burnt bones, and with them 

 six beads, apparently of horn, two of which were circular and four 

 perforated. No. 30. A beautiful bell-shaped barrow, and the largest of 



