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placed there an entire vessel of plain, dark-coloured pottery, but too 

 much disintegrated to admit of any determination as to its original 

 shape or size, though it had probably been not unlike fig. 91. 

 Between this black deposit and the centre of the barrow was 

 another deposit of like matter, but smaller in extent and thinner. 

 At a point 5 ft. south-south-west of the centre, and upon the natural 

 surface, was the occipital portion of the skull of a young person, 

 and close to it some other bones, a right femur, the iliac bones, &c.; 

 while at the other end of the femur was the skull of a small-sized 

 man, in the middle period of life. In close contiguity to this lay a 

 water-worn oval quartzite pebble, one end of which had been much 

 used for pounding or grinding ; the other end being less, but still 

 distinctly, abraded in like manner. It is 4J in. long and 3 in. wide. 

 At the centre of the barrow, on the natural surface, was the body of 

 a strongly-made man, past the middle period of life, laid on the left 

 side, with the bead to E., the right hand across the lower part of 

 the chest, and the left on the right elbow. Behind the head was a 

 ' drinking cup,' in form like fig. 120, 7f in, high, 5| in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 3Jin. at the bottom. It is ornamented over nearly the 

 whole of the upper 5 in. with encompassing, intersecting, vertical 

 and zigzag lines, all made by impressions of a narrow notched strip 

 of bone or wood. Immediately above the body, and again in a 

 second deposit If ft. above that, were numerous portions of human 

 bones, and amongst them part of a skull. The introduction of the 

 body found at the centre had led to the disturbance of two, if not 

 three, previously buried bodies, with one of which the pounder had 

 probably been deposited. Amongst the materials of the mound 

 were several flint chippings, a round scraper, a number of animal 

 bones x , and many fragments of pottery, principally like those 

 already described, and consisting of portions of several dark-coloured, 

 well-baked, plain vessels apparently domestic. 



XLIII. The next barrow was about half a mile south-east of the 

 last, and proved very prolific in interments. Like the last, although 

 at a higher level, it was not on the crown of the hill. It was 54 ft. 

 in diameter, 4ft. high, though a good deal ploughed down, and 

 made of earth, with an admixture of some chalk. At a point 

 19 ft. south-west of the centre was a ' food vessel,' set upright, and 



1 The animal bones, which include those found in the deposit of dark -coloured 

 mould, belong to a large number of oxen (bos longifrons}, some of them young ones, 

 and to two pigs. All the marrow-containing bones have been split open. 



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