168 REPORT ON THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 
pair of bronze tweezers (Plate VIL, Fig. 15), a small iron knife 
in a sheath, and also portions of the lower and upper jaws of 
a pig. 
Find No. 33* was portion of the scapula of a pig. 
Find No. 34 was a complete skeleton, 2 ft. 3 in. below the 
surface, lying on the left side, its head pointing towards the south- 
south-east. The left arm lay stretched out at right angles to the 
body, the right one was bent at the elbow, the hand resting on 
the left elbow. The right leg was crossed over the left one, and 
bent at the knees to an angle of about 30 degrees. Accompany- 
ing this were fragments of pottery and some flint flakes. 
Just about this spot a large number of animals’ bones, frag- 
ments of pottery, and flint flakes occurred, and which are marked 
in the catalogue as Finds 35, 36, 37, and 38, but are not shown 
on the plan. 
TuHeE DitcuH.—From here a trench 3 ft. deep was then dug in 
a westerly direction, but no more boiies or relics of any kind 
were discovered until, at the spot marked D on the plan (Plate 
II.), a portion of a ditch was met with. This was very carefully 
excavated, and was found to run ina slightly curved form nearly 
due north and south ; it was g2 ft. long, and was at the southern 
end 5 ft. 9 in. deep, but at the northern one only 2 ft. 6 in. 
(Plate X.) No human bones whatever were discovered in this 
ditch, but several hundreds of animals’ bones, such as those of the 
ox, horse, pig, goat, hare, and dog were met with ; also numerous 
fragments of pottery of Saxon, Romano-British, and Roman 
origin, and a few probably even of Celtic; some flint flakes, 
a few fragments of bronze, some pieces of coal or anthracite, and 
an earthy substance, orange-red in colour, doubtless some kind 
of pigment 
I have made a minute and detailed examination of all the 
articles found in this ditch, dividing them off into layers each one 
foot in depth, and have obtained the following results :— 
Finds Nos. 30, 31, 32, and 33 were all near each other. A large 
quantity of charcoal and humus was also found about here, as if a huge 
funeral pyre had been erected on this spot. 
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