24 BARROW-DIGGING AT MARTlNSTOWN. 



together with numerous human bones, as well as some burnt 

 bones. The unburnt remains included several nearly entire 

 femora, tibiae, and humeri. This cairn of flints and its 

 accompanying human remains resembled those found in 

 Barrows i and 3. These flints, which were reached at a depth 

 of 6 inches from the surface, were found to extend within a few 

 inches of the bottom of the grave. Amongst them one flint 

 scraper (Plate VI., top right-hand corner), and a few flint flakes 

 were found ; also 15 fragments of pottery of the No. ^ quality of 

 British, including ten small fragments (some ornamented with 

 finger-nail marks) which appeared to belong to one vessel, and 

 a piece of rim decorated externally and internally by lines of 

 twisted-cord pattern (Plate VI., at top). A. somewhat similar 

 fragment of rim was found in Barrow 26, Handley Down.* 



A continuation of the excavation here resulted in the 

 uncovering of a contracted human skeleton, lying on its right 

 side, at the bottom of a grave cut in the hard chalk. The 

 following are the dimensions of the grave : 



Depth from summit of barrow, 3*7 feet. 



Depth in the solid chalk, 2*2 feet. 



Length of grave at top, 7-6 feet. 



Do. bottom, 6'7 feet. 



Greatest width at top, 5 feet. 



Do. bottom, 3*7 feet. 



The grave more or less squared at feet-end, rounded at 

 head-end. 



Skull, i -7 feet from S.E. end of grave. 



Fairly flat bottom to grave. 



Slight ledge on N.E. side, on which a few fragments of 

 the pottery were found. 



Smooth chalk walls on all sides except the S.W. 

 The skeleton was found to be contracted in the general 

 direction of E. 46 S. It lay rather nearer the N.E. side of the 

 grave than the S.W. side, and the skull was at a distance of 



* Excavations in Cranborne Chase, Vol. IV., Plate 294, Fig. 2. 



