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Near the head of the body under notice were a few pieces of a 

 richly-decorated vase. There was also a good deal of charcoal upon 

 the hips and upper part of the thigh bones, and some large flints 

 were roughly disposed over the body, probably by way of protection. 

 About 3 ft. west-north-west of the centre was a second oval hole, 

 4 ft. by 3 ft., and 2 ft. deep, which contained nothing except chalk 

 rubble and mould. Just north of the centre were many broken 

 bones of the body of an adult man, which had evidently been 

 disturbed, and to which the broken fragments of the vase, mentioned 

 above as met with near the head of the last-named body, may be 

 referred ; nor is it unlikely that the unburnt bones found amongst 

 the disturbed burnt ones may have belonged to this body. In the 

 barrow a part of a red-deer's antler was met with. 



XXVIII. The second barrow was 75 ft. in diameter, 4 ft. high, 

 and, like the last, was made of flint rubble and mould, the latter of 

 the same dark colour as in the former instance. At a point 18 ft. 

 south-by-east from the centre, and 1 ft. above the natural surface, was 

 a body, apparently that of a woman, laid on the right side ; the 

 bones were too much decayed to allow the position of the hands to 

 be made out. Behind and touching the lower part of the back was 

 a roughly-made and irregularly-formed round scraper of flint, and 

 close in front of the body was a single fragment of a * drinking cup,' 

 ornamented like fig. 83. Again, 18 ft. west-south-west from the 

 centre, and just below the present surface of the barrow, was found 

 a cinerary urn, filled with the burnt bones of an adult ; the upper 

 part of the urn had been destroyed by the plough ; the overhanging 

 rim, 2 in. deep, has had on. the outside a pattern like that on 

 fig. 54, of alternate series of vertical and horizontal lines, and is 

 further ornamented to the same depth on the inside by encircling 

 lines, all of twisted thong. At a point 7 ft. south-south-west of the 

 centre, and 3 ft, above the natural surface, there was a further 

 deposit of burnt bones, also of an adult, disposed in a round heap 

 1 ft. in diameter. A few feet south-west of the present centre were 

 found several bodies laid very close together, and placed either in a 

 natural depression in the original surface, or in a slight artificially- 

 formed hollow. These probably constituted the original interments, 

 and the deposits had to some extent been disturbed by the intro- 

 duction of a later burial. The first body, that of a man, was 7ft. 

 south-west of the present centre, and was laid in a contracted 

 position on the right side, with the head to E. The legs were 



