584 Notes on Barroics at Lake. 



strata was found abundance of very black earth. The barrow was formed of 

 the following materials : — mould, 1ft. ; chalk, 2yds. ; mould, 2yds. 2ft. In 

 the raising of this barrow the mould of the surrounding land must have been 

 taken off the surface, after which to increase the height the chalk was made 

 use of — the subsoil in this instance, and indeed the general subsoil of the 

 conntrj'. 



Base diameter 23yds. 2 ft., ; measured from the face of the vallum, 42yds. ; 

 elevation, 3 yds. Sin. 



4. A large campaniform barrow covered on the top with a stratum of 

 mould about 1 foot in thickness with one of chalk and one also of flint each 

 of the thickness of 1 yard and shelving with the declination of the barrow in 

 opposite directions. The remaining part of the depth consisted of pure mould. 

 In a cist of the depth of 1ft. Sin. was deposited a great quantity of bones 

 which were spread entirely over the bottom together with a lance head and 

 four ornaments of stained bone. From the appearance of rotten wood around 

 the sides of the cist it may fairly be presumed that the contents of it were 

 deposited in a box of wood. 



Base diameter, 83yds. 1ft. 4in. ; elevation, 4yds. 1ft. 4in. 

 On Sept. 24, 1S69, I made a cutting in this barrow from the centre towards 

 the E., about 66ft. long down to the floor of the barrow ; found nothing. E.D. 

 [ ? Does this additional note refer to No. 4 or No. 5. — Editor.] 



5. A bowl shaped barrow formed as are all the following of mould alone. 

 In the centre about 1yd. 2ft. deep were laid the bones of 1 or 2 small children 

 under which was placed a small urn or drinking cup of about 1ft. in depth 

 and 6in. in diameter — within about 2in. of the rim was an indented urn — it 

 was without contents, beneath this cup was a cist of the depth of 1ft. 6in. 

 containing the skeleton of a man Ij'ing on the left side with his head towards 

 the south resting on his arm — his legs were drawn up towards the body ; 

 beside his head were found a pointed bone of the length of 3Mn. channelled 

 down the middle on the one side, convex on the other, with a small perforation 

 at the head, and three small skewer-like bones of the length of 1 or 2 inches ; 

 almost at the feet of this skeleton laj^ the head of a second person, and ap- 

 parently a young one with the body and feet nearly in the same direction. 

 About 1ft. on the right hand from this and on the floor of the barrow lay e 

 skeleton with the head to the north-east having on a necklace of beads, 

 beneath this was a cist of l^ft. deep in which was lain another skeleton with 

 the head towards the west. 



Base diameter, 23yds. ; elevation, 1yd. 2ft. 6in. 



6. A bowl barrow containing within 1ft. 4in. of its top and 2Jft. from the 

 centre an urn placed (contrary to what is the usual position) with its top 

 uppermost. It measured 1ft. lin. in height to the hem and from thence Bin. 

 to the rim. The contents were burnt bones at the bottom. In the centre of 

 the barrow was a cist of 1ft. 6in. in depth containing also burnt bones. 



Base diameter, 11 yds. 1ft. ; elevation, 1yd. 1ft. 2in. 



