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still remained in their proper order and ppsition, on the natural 

 surface, at the north side of the grave ;, other parts of the same 

 body, portions of the skull, &c., being mixed amongst the filling-in 

 of the upper part of the grave ; with these disturbed human bones 

 were some broken ox bones. At the bottom of the grave, and 

 at the west end, was the body of a strongly-made man, past the 

 middle period of life, laid upon the right side, with the head to W., 

 the right hand upon the left elbow and the left hand upon the 

 stomach. Behind the neck was a large and well-shaped flint flake, 

 which, from its form and sharp edge, would well answer the pur- 

 pose of a knife ; and at the knees were some pieces of a human 

 skull, probably belonging to the body which had been cut through 

 in making the grave. Near the centre of the barrow, and just 

 to the south of it, was a great quantity of charcoal. Twenty-one 

 feet north-east of the centre, and 1 ft. above the natural surface, 

 was the body of a very large and strongly-built man, but so de- 

 cayed that nothing could be discovered about it except that it had 

 been placed in the usual contracted position. In the mound, here 

 and there, were some few flint drippings, charcoal, the tine of a 

 red-deer's antler, and broken bones belonging to several adult 

 oxen. 



XLVII. The barrow now to be described, and which proved to 

 be a very remarkable one, was about 300yds. to the south-east of 

 the last. It was 80 ft. in diameter, 3J feet high, and made up of 

 earth, with a little chalk-rubble intermixed. Just within the edge 

 of the mound there was an oval trench, 70 ft. across from east to 

 west, and 60ft. from north to south. It was 3ft. wide and 3 J ft. 

 deep, and was sunk to a depth of 2 ft. into the solid chalk, the 

 upper If ft. being cut through the soil overlying the chalk. On 

 account of the highway cutting off a portion of the barrow it was 

 impossible to examine its south-eastern quarter completely, so that 

 the trench could not be traced through its entire extent ; neither 

 could it be ascertained whether, like that found in a barrow on 

 Potter Brompton Wold [No. xxii], there was a space left unex- 

 cavated so as to render the circle incomplete. At the bottom of 

 the trench, on the west side, were the two halves of a red-deer's 

 antler. The lower half has the brow tine left on, the other tines 

 being broken off. There are evident signs of use at the point of 

 the tine and at the back of the burr, and there can scarcely be a 

 doubt that it had served as a pick, and that the trench had in 



