THE FAERY YEAR 



away its winter, like the bat ? There is no good 

 record of bird hibernation : yet we never hear of 

 any physiological reason against it. 



The Barrow Inventory 



The mound on the hill, which we began to open 

 ten days since, has proved to be an early British 

 burying place. I was only present during the first 

 day's work, when no relic of stone or bronze man 

 was discovered. But on the second day pottery was 

 found, and during the past week there have been 

 several fresh discoveries. 



The crowbar struck and cracked a large jar which 

 is quite black, with two raised straight lines round 

 it. Inside the jar were two long bits of what looked 

 like rotten iron, which was encrusted with some 

 red substance, and was very brittle. The third day's 

 work brought to the surface a large jar (broken) and 

 a plate. On the latter were three birds' bones, and 

 round it several pieces of the rotten metal similar to 

 that held in the jar found previously ; also a curved 

 piece of metal, glittering and covered with verdigris. 

 The third day brought a small red jar, with filagree 

 work round it, and a second plate, broken into four 

 pieces. The plate held ashes and the large bones of 

 some animal, including part of the jaw, with great 

 teeth, which are perfectly sound. Finally, there were 

 a large number of small pieces of what the finder 

 takes to be copper, each ornamented with dots and 

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