200 Stonekenge and its Barrows. 



this group. It measures from ditch to ditch 131 feet^andis 15 feethigh. 

 At the depth of 15 feet was found only a simple interment of burnt 

 bones. No. 31, a bowl-shaped barrow, 104 feet in base diameter, 

 had on its floor an interment of burnt bones, with a small spear- 

 head. No. 32, a fine bell-shaped barrow, contained only a simple 

 interment of burnt bones. No. 33. Seventy-eight feet in diameter, 

 surrounded by a fine vallum without the ditch, but having no 

 elevation, as usual, in the centre. At the depth of 2 feet was a 

 circular cist containing a deposit of burnt bones, together with beads 

 of glass, amber, and stone, with one of a horn-like substance. No. 

 34 had been opened before, and No. 35 was not successfully explored. 

 No. 36, pi'oduced three skeletons, one over the other; the first about 

 2 feet deep ; the second on a level with the adjoining soil. Close to 

 the right side of the head of this last skeleton was a drinking 

 cup, and with it a considerable quantity of something that appeared 

 like decayed leather. Six feet lower lay the third, with which was 

 found a drinking cup. Sir Richard Hoare was surprised to find the 

 bones and teeth so well preserved when deposited deep in the chalk, 

 but " the most remarkable circumstance,^' he says, was finding a 

 piece of the skull, about 6 inches broad, that had been apparently 

 sawn off, for he did not think that any knife could have cut it off in 

 the manner in which this was done. No. 37 contained a large 

 oblong cist, full of black ashes, and a few burnt bones. In No. 38, 

 after much labour, the interment was missed. No. 39 is described 

 as a bowl-shaped tumulus, adjoining the south side of the Cursus, 78 

 feet in diameter, and nearly 7 high, although it had been some years 

 under tillage. A skeleton, with a drinking- cup, had been previously 

 found. Another skeleton was found on the floor, of a female, with 

 a large quantity of beads near the neck. Close to the head was a 

 kind of bason, broken, but neatly ornamented round the edge. " On 

 removing the head, we were much surprised to find that it rested 

 upon a drinking cup, that had been placed at the feet of another 

 skeleton, and which was interred in an oblong cist 2 feet deep, and 

 lying also from north to south. TV'ith the drinking cup was a spear- 

 head of flint, and a singular stone.'''' (Plate xvii.) This stone is 

 very neatly polished, feels silky, and, at first sight, looks something 



