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child, placed If ft. above the natural surface. Nine feet east of 

 the centre, and upon the natural surface, was laid the body of 

 an old woman, on the right side ; the head was to E., and the 

 hands up to the face. Behind the head was a round flint scraper. 

 At a point 5 ft. east-south-east of the centre, and 2 ft. above the 

 natural surface, was the body of an adult, lying 1 on the left side, 

 with the head to W., and the hands up to the face ; upon them 

 was placed a thick, well-chipped flint implement, 2 J- in. long and 

 fin. wide, of knife-like form; and above it a 'food vessel/ 4Jin. 

 high, 5f in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom, and in 

 shape like fig. 69, but with two raised ribs. The upper part for 

 a depth of If in. is ornamented with three encompassing bands 

 of short vertical lines of twisted-thong impressions ; the inside 

 of the rim has two similar bands, having between them an 

 encompassing line of the same impression. About the body were 

 a few fragments of burnt bone. Nine feet east-north-east of the 

 centre, and 2 ft. above the natural surface, was the body of a 

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

 side, with the head to E., and the hands clasping each other 

 and up to the face. Fifteen feet east-north-east of the centre was 

 the body of a child, laid on the left side, at a height of 1 ft. above 

 the natural surface. Eighteen feet north-north-east of the centre, 

 at the same level, was the body of another child ; 9 ft. north-west 

 of the centre, and 2 ft. above the natural surface, was the body of a 

 third child, laid upon the right side ; while at a point 12 ft. north- 

 east of the centre, and at the same level as the last, was the body of 

 yet a fourth child, laid on the right side, with the head to the west. 

 At the centre was an oval grave, running east and west, 9 ft. by 

 6J ft. and 5 ft. deep, sunk into the chalk, the excavated material 

 from which, beyond what had served to fill it in again, was regularly 

 piled up, like a wall, on the north side of the grave. On the 

 bottom, at the south-west side, lay the body of a large and power- 

 fully-made man, past the middle period of life. At the knees was 

 a large, thin, and well-chipped flint knife [fig. 106], the edge worn 

 by use, 3f in. long and If in. wide, with a rounded point ; and nearer 

 the head was a large oval flint flake, which also shows signs of se 

 on one edge. The bones were not all in their proper order, nor did it 

 seem as if the body when deposited in the grave had been vested 

 with its flesh, or connected by the ligaments in all its parts. 

 There was a story of a former tenant of the farm having dug into 

 the barrow and come upon a skeleton, the head of which he held up 



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