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drawn up over the right shoulder, the angle at the elbow being 

 very acute. The legs were much drawn up, as in all the 

 Martinstown cases ; the right knee was within 3 inches of the 

 side of the grave ; the right wrist only 2 inches from ditto ; the 

 feet almost touched the side of the grave on the N.N.W. The 

 vertebral column was in a fairly straight line. 



As in the case of the skeleton in Barrow 2, this skeleton, 

 being in a bad state of preservation and of no interest for 

 anthropological measurements, was covered up after excavation, 

 the usual leaden tablet recording the excavation being deposited 

 with the skeleton. 



There is no doubt about the Bronze Age date of this inter- 

 ment, for behind the vertebrae and on the bottom of the grave 

 the base and portion of the side (in fragments) of what was 

 apparently an ornamented food-vessel was found. (Plan, 

 Plate VII., "21.") The pot was 3! inches in diameter at the 

 base, the sides averaging f inch in thickness. It is of the 

 usual soft British quality, black inside and light reddish-brown 

 on the exterior. The indented ornamentation consists of bands 

 of chevrons pointing in opposite directions, with parallel 

 horizontal bands of conjoined oblong punch- marks between. 

 The chevrons are filled with elongated indentations, as shown 

 on the small fragment figured in Plate VI., Fig 21. 



Grave II. On the western line of the cutting the S.S.W. 

 margin of Grave II. was found immediately after the removal of 

 the cremated interment, at a distance of 17 feet from the S.S.W. 

 corner of the main cutting, the northern margin of the grave on 

 the same line being 22 feet from the same point. The upper 

 margins of Graves I. and II. were separated by 3-4 feet of the 

 solid chalk floor. 



This proved to be the most interesting of the three primary 

 interments found in Barrows 2 and 3, although in much the 

 same contracted posture. It is much to be regretted that no 

 relics whatever not even a fragment of pottery were associated 

 with this interment. An excellent photograph of it, in situ, is 

 represented in Plate IX. 



