114 Notes on Bowl’s Barrow. 
which were piled upon them, and which crushed them the more 
easily as the structure of the bone was weakened by the natural 
process of decay; and in every instance the bodies must have been 
dismembered before they were interred. Some few ribs, and oc- 
casionally a few vertebra, were found in consecutive order, but no 
instance of a complete vertebral column was seen. But none of the 
bones were burnt, nor were there marks of cutting or seraping on 
any of them. There is an instance of a leg bone which had been 
broken, but no attempt had been made to extract the marrow, for 
a delicate plate of cancellated bone tissue extends across the open 
end. So far the evidence from Bowl’s Barrow is not in favour of 
the theory above mentioned. 
The cist was reached after much labour, and found to be of oblong 
form, at a right angle to the axis of the barrow, and about 39ft. 
from the extreme east end. It was to the eastward, and quite 
distinct from the general interment of bones. It was fully 2ft. in 
depth, 6ft. Jong, and 3ft. wide. It was filled with light grey earth, 
distinctly different to any other soil of the barrow. There were no 
traces of interment within it, but scattered about very irregularly 
just above the cist, were many loose bones of a skeleton which 
must have been disturbed when it was first discovered by Mr. 
Cunnington in 1801. They are unlike in colour and condition to 
the other bones found in the barrow, and they doubtless belonged 
to cranium No. 9, which was found lying to the east and just 
beyond the edge of the cist. This had not, apparently, been disturbed 
during the former diggings, but was covered by a large block of 
sarsen, which had crushed it into numerous fragments. In its 
restored condition it exhibits the characteristic long form ; index 69. 
The circumstances under which these bones were found, and their 
different colour, seem to indicate that they were interred separately 
from the other human bodies, and they may, therefore, be the 
remains of the individual in whose honour the barrow was raised. 
The flint-paving beneath the interment, as described by Mr. 
Cunnington, was not continuous, and towards the west it was 
entirely wanting, and here the bones were mostly more decayed, 
and discoloured by contact with the old turf. 
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