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removed down to the original surface of the ground. The upper 

 portion was found to consist of stone and rubble to the depth of 

 18 inches ; the remaining 3 feet 6 inches was fine mould. In 

 this fine mould 80 flints were found, also 4 small pieces of 

 pottery, and a few teeth of oxen. On what had been the 

 surface soil before the construction of the barrow, traces of the 

 action of fire were perceptible, — charcoal, burned bones, and 

 small pieces of a human skull lay scattered about; whilst 

 exactly at the centre of the tumulus a hole, 8 inches in depth, 

 had been made, and in it lay a few burned human bones. The 

 flints were found in every part of the heap of fine mould,— 

 some were flakes, thin and sharp-edged, forming scraping or 

 cutting implements, and including the "knife," figured on 

 Plate 4, fig. 4; but the majority were mere chippings. One 

 flint arrow-point (see Plate 4, fig. 1) of an uncommon type lay 

 near the deposited bones. No trace of metal was observed. 

 The pottery, rude in structure, was ornamented by a pattern 

 formed by dotted lines. 



The "Journal of the Archseological Association" (Vol. IV., 

 page 60) contains an account of the discovery of a number of 

 interments in a field near Chavenage, from which were obtained 

 iron spear-heads, bronze fibulae, silver ear-rings, stone, clay, and 

 amber beads, all characteristic specimens of Anglo-Saxon work- 

 manship. These interments were met with in the year 1847 by 

 workmen employed to level down two circular tumuH, which 

 stood 300 feet due N. and S., one from the other. This levelling- 

 down process, though uncovering the secondary graves, did 

 not disturb the central portions of the original grave-mounds, 

 and these I have carefully examined during the present year. 

 In one, charcoal, burned bones, small pieces of pottery, and 

 worked flints were foiind on the original surface, and a few 

 inches higher a very well worked flint javelin-point (see Plate 

 IV., fig. 2.) What remained of the other tumulus was still 

 protected by stones, which covered a deposit of fine soil, in 

 which were found some pieces of iron-stone and of charcoal, but 

 no trace of any interment ; and neither bones, pottery, or flints 

 were met with. 



