22 BARROW-DIGGING AT MARTINSTOWN. 



quartz grains in its composition. The surface of this food- 

 vessel, which is very uneven, has no ornamentation. The west, 

 south-west, south, and south-east walls of the grave presented a 

 smooth face of solid chalk. The sides of the grave in the other 

 parts appear to have been built up with large slabs of chalk. 



The skeleton proved to be male, and two views of the skull, 

 viz., norma later alis and norma fadalis, are figured in Plate IV., 

 Fig. 33, at a scale of J linear. These human remains, being of 

 considerable importance from a racial point of view, were 

 submitted to Dr. J. G. Garson, Assist. Genl. Sec. of the British 

 Association, and through his kindness we are able to add a 

 valuable Appendix to this paper. 



Further excavations are the only means of determining 

 whether the barrow contains any other primary interments in 

 clean-cut graves in the chalk. Tt will be observed on reference 

 to the plan that the secondary interment by cremation, "286" 

 (with bronze knife-dagger at " 28A"), is in a far more central 

 position in the barrow than the primary interment by 

 inhumation. 



It seems to the investigators quite probable although there 

 is nothing to afford proof that a cairn of flints was thrown over 

 the primary interment and covered, perhaps, by a little mould or 

 turf, and that subsequently (probably at no great interval of 

 time) to the secondary interment by cremation being deposited 

 on the "old surface line" a larger mound was formed, this 

 latter interment being regarded as approximately in the centre 

 of the barrow. 



It might be recorded here that bronze knives and daggers are 

 more frequently found with burnt bodies than with unburnt 

 ones. Out of 60 recorded by Thurnam from Wiltshire Barrows, 

 1 6 only were found with skeletons, whilst 44. were associated 

 with cremated remains.* 



At the conclusion of the operations in May, 1903, the large 

 cutting through Barrow i was filled in and re-turfed. 



* Archceologia, Vol. XLIIL, p. 442. 



