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wrapped up in a linen cloth to protect them ; and with the hones 

 were found a small bronze pin^ employed probably for fastening the 

 cloth, five rings of a dark brown colour, one of which was perforated 

 for suspension, a small cone of the same materials perforated also 

 for the same purpose, and several pully beads of glass, with one of 

 jet, and another of amber. No. 1 1 contained, within an oblong 

 cist, a simple interment of burnt bones. No. 1^ contained a very 

 large rude urn, 16^ inches deep, inverted over an interment of burnt 

 bones, and within it a smaller vase. Within them were found two 

 dark rings, a large amber bead perforated, four pully beads and three 

 of a black colour. 



On the eastern side of the valley, and nearly opposite to the 

 cluster of barrows just described, is another group situated on the 

 southern declivity of a projecting point of the downs. They are 

 enclosed in an area of about seven acres, within an oval earthen 

 work, surrounded by a bank and ditch of slight elevation, and are 

 eleven in number. Cremation had been practised in Nos. 1 and 2. 

 Nos. 3 and 4 had been opened by shepherds, and contained inter- 

 ments of burnt bones. In the former was a little cup, which Mr. 

 Cunnington purchased. No. 5 contained an urn very imperfectly 

 baked, and within it an interment of burnt bones, and a very small 

 arrow-head of bone. In No. 6 cremation had been adopted. No. 



7, a large barrow, produced three interments. At the depth of 4^ 

 feet was the skeleton of an infant ; and immediately beneath it a 

 deposit of burnt bones, and a drinking cup. At the depth of 8 feet, 

 and in the native bed of chalk, was the primary interment, viz., the 

 skeleton of a man, lying from north to south, with his legs gathered 

 up according to the primitive custom. On his right side, and about 

 a foot or more above the bones was an enormous stag's horn. No. 



8, a large old-fashioned bowl-shaped barrow, with a base diameter 

 of nearly 100 feet, contained a skeleton lying on the floor with its 

 head to the north. The other three barrows, 9, 10, and 11, afforded, 

 on opening, no one appearance of sepulchral remains. 



