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several beads of a dark olive brown colour, made from some bitu- 

 minized substance. No. 173 is a long barrow. In making a section 

 at the broad end, a skeleton was discovered at the depth of 18 inches 

 from the surface, and on reaching the floor of the barrow, four other 

 skeletons were found strangely huddled together, and yet there was 

 no appearance of a previous disturbance of the barrow. The bones 

 were in a high state of preservation, and one of the persons here in- 

 terred seems to have had no forehead, the sockets of his eyes appearing 

 to have been on the top of his head, and the final termination of the 

 vertebrffi turned up so much " that we almost fancied we had found 

 the remains of one of Lord Monboddo's animals.'' No. 174 had been 

 opened before. No. 175 contained a simple deposit of burnt bones, 

 and in the small tumulus attached to it, and which had been investi- 

 gated, we found fragments of another interment. In No. 176, a 

 fine bell-shaped barrow, was found a skeleton, lying on the floor with 

 its head towards the north, but this barrow was not very minutely 

 investigated. No. 1 7 7 was only the base of a large circular barrow, 

 the earth having been removed for agricultural purposes ; yet the 

 spot where the deposit of burnt bones was made was discovered, and 

 with them a fine spear head of bronze. No. 178 contained a simple 

 interment of burnt bones; and Nos. 179, and ISO, had been opened 

 by the neighbouring farmers. No. 181 is a group consisting of 

 several mean barrows, which appeared to have been previously opened. 

 No. 182 produced an interment of burnt bones, deposited within a 

 wooden box on the floor, and with them the head of a bronze dagger, 

 which had been secured by a sheath of wood lined with linen cloth, 

 a small lance-head, a pair of ivory nippers, and an ivory pin. In 

 No. 183 was an interment of burnt bones and some stag's horns. 



Baerows on Wilsford Dowx. 



No. 1 is a small circular barrow, which bad been explored. No. 

 2, a disc-sha])ed barrow, in it were found a lance-head of bronze, 

 and a pin of the same metal, intermixed with a part of the interment 

 of burnt bones. No. 3, a barrow of the same form, produced an 

 interment by cremation, and a considerable quantity of glass, jet, 

 and amber beads, together with a fine bronze pin. In No. 4 was 



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