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having failed to reveal them), some human teeth were found, so 

 much burnt that it was at first difficult to recognize them as such. 

 Not the smallest fragment of bone or anything else but the teeth 

 was found in the charcoal from the fire-hole, but two sherds of 

 coarse pottery were found in the layer round it. 



18in. deeper and actually underneath the fire-hole, an oval cist, 

 25in. X 12in. x 12in. deep, had been hollowed out in the solid 

 chalk. The cist had been covered over with large lumps of chalk 

 and contained calcined human bones. The bones, which were much 

 burnt and in fragments, had been gathered together and placed in 

 the cist without any attempt to arrange them. There were no 

 teeth among them. One or two of the bones were stained green, 

 as if by contact with bronze, but no piece of bronze could be found. 

 Mixed in among the bones were fragments of a small incense cup 

 with typical Bronze Age chevron pattern on the sides and flat rim. 

 The fragments were much decayed and very small, and not nearly 

 enough of them were found to form a complete vessel. It was 

 quite clear that it could not have been complete when buried, from 

 the way in which the pieces were mixed in amongst the bones. 

 With the bones there was also a button or stud of bone or ivory 

 of the conical shape sometimes found with Bronze Age remains. 

 It has two converging holes bored obliquely on its under surface, 

 the diameter of which is fin. It shows no signs of having been 

 burnt. 



On the southern side of the barrow, about 3ft. from the centre 

 and 6in. from the surface, a rudely-made earthenware pot was 

 found lying tilted over on its side towards the south. The pot is 

 4iin. in diameter at the rim, 4in. at the base, and 3|in. high. Still 

 on the south side, and occupying a space from 4in. to 14in. below 

 the surface, fragments of a second vessel were found. If tliis pot 

 had ever been placed in the barrow whole, it must have been dis- 

 turbed at some subsequent time and thrown back broken. A 

 considerable quantity of burnt human bones were mixed in with 

 the pieces and in the soil round them. This vessel seems to have 

 served the purpose of a cinerary urn, and to have been a secondary 

 interment in the barrow. Within a few inches of this some pieces 



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