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same size, as at Woodcuts and Rotherley. The identified bones of 
the ox amounted to 36:8 per cent. of the total number of fragments ; 
sheep, 38°8 per cent.; and horse, 25-2 per cent. No grain was 
found. In one respect a difference was observed in their culinary 
practices. In Woodcuts and Rotherley an enormous number of 
burnt flints were found, which had been used in a red-hot state for 
boiling food in troughs. In this settlement not a single burnt flint 
was discovered, which argues an entire difference in their mode of 
cooking. .An interesting discovery was made in the Mid Drain, at 
the bottom of which, at 2ft. 14in. beneath the surface, a coffin, 
composed of a dug-out half trunk of a tree, was found with a 
cremated interment in it. A model of this was exhibited. A 
similar interment was discovered by me in a tumulus of the Bronze 
Age, about four miles to the west, which is described in the second 
volume of my “ Excavations in Cranborne Chase,” showing that 
this mode of burial must have survived amongst the Britons until 
Roman times, and that, in both periods, cremation and inhumation 
were practiced simultaneously. 
The quality of the pottery and the forms of the earthen vessels 
tallied with those found in the villages, with some notable differences. 
The proportion of vessels with loops for suspension and holes in the 
bottom—supposed by me to be for draining honey, was considerably 
less in Woodyates. The proportion of loops to the total number 
of fragments of pottery in the settlement—viz., twenty-eight 
thousand four hundred and eighty-nine,' being 0°03 per cent. in 
Woodyates, as against 0°29 per cent. in Woodcuts, and 0°79 in 
Rotherley, showing, either that there was less use for this class of 
vessel in Woodyates, or that, being more distant from its place of 
fabrication, it was less easily procured. The proportion of fragments 
with basin-shaped rims and high ridges was larger than in Rotherley, 
but not so numerous as in Woodcuts. The class of bowl, with a 
bead rim, which was very common in the pits at Woodcuts, and 
also, though in a less degree, at Rotherley, and which were generally 
1The total number of fragments in Woodcuts was twenty-seven thousand 
seven hundred and twenty-one ; and in Rotherley, eighteen thousand nine 
hundred and thirty-two. 
