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the remains of two neatly-ornamented drinking cups; and on digging 

 towards the south-east was discovered the skeleton of a child, and 

 over it a drinking cup. (PI. xviii.) No. 23 contained a simple in- 

 terment of burnt bones within a cist, made in the form of a cone, 

 and No. 24 produced a similar interment, immediately under the 

 turf, with fragments of a drinking cup. Two feet lower down was 

 another deposit of burnt bones immediately over the head of a 

 skeleton j and beneath this was a second skeleton, lying with its 

 head to the north-west, and several large pieces of stags^ horns by 

 its side. The barrows, Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, were opened by 

 their owner, the Rev. Edward Duke, in 1806. Nos. 16, 17, and 18 

 had each an interment of burnt bones, and a small lance-head of 

 bronze. No. 20, besides a lance-head contained four little articles 

 of bone, intermixed with the ashes and burnt bones. Sir Richard 

 Hoare thought they might have been used, like tesserse, for some 

 kind of game. (PI. xxxi.) No. 21, a wide and low tumulus, 

 ploughed over for many years. The mode of interment was here 

 vai'ied, and the very rich and numerous trinkets discovered in this 

 barrow seem to announce the skeleton to have been that of some 

 very distinguished British female. The most remarkable of these 

 was an ornament of amber, 10 inches in height, and above 3 in 

 breadth. It is formed of eight distinct tablets, and by being strung 

 together, formed one ornament, as may be distinctly seen by the 

 perforations at top and bottom. Besides the above were numerous 

 beads of amber of much larger proportions than usual,and varying 

 in their patterns, four articles of gold perforated, perhaps for earrings, 

 and two small earthen cups, the one about 7 or 8 inches deep, the 

 other little above an inch. The largest of the beads, the gold or- 

 naments and the fragment of the smallest cup are engraved of their 

 full size in plate xxxi. 



Baerows at Winteubotjen Stoke. 



These are situated at a short distance from the village, on a gentle 

 eminence, and are twelve in number. Nine of them are surrounded 

 by a ditch and vallum enclosing an area of about four acres, but 

 certainly of a period subsequent to the barrows within it. All, but 



