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Whether this be so or no, it is certain that the mounds here 

 which contained mortuary vessels were, as a rule, more elevated, 

 and in nearly all instances placed by themselves. The fact, too, 

 of the cube-shaped mound with its remains of four urns should 

 be kept in mind. 



Little more can with certainty be said. The flint knives 

 which have been picked up in the Forest, the stone hammer 

 in the grave, the clumsy form and make of the urns, the 

 places, too, of burial — in the wide furzy Ytene, in after-times 

 the Bratleys, and Burleys, and Oakleys, of the West- Saxons — 

 all show a people whose living was gained rather by hunting 

 than agriculture or commerce. 



Barrcws on Beaulieu Plai' 



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