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of the great Wor Barrow itself. The ditch of this was first of all completely 
dug out to its original depth, about 13ft., and then the immense mound 
itself was entirely removed down to the original surface level. It was 
found that there were four causeways of undisturbed chalk across the ditch, 
and in the silting of the ditch itself nine secondary interments were dis- 
covered, seven of them immediately below the surface mould and associated 
with relics and coins of the Roman age, and one at a depth of 8ft. ina 
crouched position with a leaf-shaped flint arrow head lying beneath the two 
lower ribs—the cause, it is conjectured, of the death of the individual. The 
skull in this case was of hyperdolichocephalic type, and the General regards 
it as a secondary interment of the time of the barrow itself, 7.e., the Stone 
Age. <A remarkable flint, with pointed end, of distinctly Paleolithic form, 
was also found in the ditch. In the barrow itself ten secondary interments, — 
of which seven had evidently been decapitated before burial, were found 
near the top of the mound, associated with Roman coins and pottery. When 
the mound had been removed down to the old surface line a ditch cut in the 
solid chalk 3ft. deep, enclosing an oblong space of 93ft. long by 34ft. wide, — 
with an opening at the south end, was discovered. The whole of this ditch 
contained loose nodules of flint, and sticking up from this ditch at various 
points were clearly seen the remains of wooden piles. “It is evident that 
for some purpose an oblong enclosure of wooden piles was formed on the 
surface of the ground before the ditch was dug, ard the soil thrown over the 
primary interments. This may, in all probability, be a wooden version of 
the stone chambers so often found enclosing the interments in Long Barrows 
in other districts where stone has been more easily obtained than wood.” 
The primary interments, six in number, were lying close together on the _ 
original surface line covered by a small heap of earth or turf. Of these, 
the bones of three were lying, not in sequence, but in heaps by the side of 
the other skeletons. The skulls of all these were dolichocephalic, and though » 
no relics were found with them it was plain that they were Long Barrow ~ 
people of the Stone Age. 
Two other Round Barrows on Handley Hill were also examined—and in | 
the account of their excavation General Pitt Rivers dwells on the importance 
of a thorough exploration of the ditches of barrows, which in many cases 
have so completely silted up as to leave no trace of their existence on the ~ 
surface. He also throws out the suggestion that the so-called ‘‘ Druid’s — 
Barrows,” with a large circular ditch and a small mound in the centre o 
the enclosed area, are really only unfinished Round Barrows, where the work 
has been stopped for some reason after the site had been marked out and 
the work begun. One of the barrows excavated contained a central primary 
interment by cremation, and two secondary interments in urns, together 
with a crouched skeleton, with which a bronze awl was found. Inthe other — 
barrow two empty graves were found, whilst on the west side of it, and — 
beyond the area of the barrow itself, no less than fifty-two secondary in- — 
terments by cremation—of which there was no sign whatever on the surface ad 
of the turf—were discovered. Many of these were contained in urns, but 
in many cases apparently the original deposit, in a small hole cut in the 
chalk, had consisted of burnt bones and fragments of pottery only. Insida 
