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however had been broken and replaced by a pin of iron, the one end 

 of which had been inserted into a piece of wood placed within the 

 coil constituting the spring- with which fibulae of this form were 

 customarily fitted. In the barrow were a few flint chippings, and 



Fig. 110. i. 



a very large number of sherds, principally of a plain, hard-baked, and 

 dark-coloured kind of pottery, but some of a fine, porous, and light- 

 coloured kind, like that figured p. 107, fig. 91. Very little of it 



Pig. ill. J-. 



had much admixture of broken stone, and the greater part had none. 

 A small fragment, If- in. long, triangular in section, of an armlet 

 of lignite was also found. 



Fig. 112. j. 



LI. The second barrow was 24 ft. in diameter, 1 ft. high, and, 

 like the first, made of chalk-rubble. On the south side was a 

 trench, running east and west, 5 ft. long, If ft. wide, and 3 ft. deep. 



