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about 4ft. west of the centre ; in it, and especially at the east end, 

 was much burnt earth and a quantity of charcoal, evidently resulting 

 from a fire which had been lighted in the hole and had reddened its 

 sides and the surrounding earth for some distance. In this hole also 

 were flint chippings, fragments of dark-coloured plain pottery, and 

 many broken bones belonging to several oxen, one sheep or goat, 

 and three horses, all adult animals. At the centre, and upon the 

 natural surface, was the body of a woman about 30 years of age, laid 

 on the left side, with the head to N.E ; the right arm was down the 

 side, the hand being flat with the palm uppermost and the fingers 

 touching the knees ; the left arm was extended at a right angle 

 from the side, the hand being laid flat as in the case of the other. 

 Underneath the body were several fragments of two, if not three, 

 plain, hard-baked, and dark-coloured vessels with lips turned over 

 like that of fig. 91, and having no broken stone mixed with the clay. 

 Amongst the material of the mound was a well-formed, long and 

 narrow flint scraper [fig. 18], showing signs of much use along one 

 side. 



LIII. The last barrow of this group was 42 ft. in diameter, 1 ft. 

 high, and made of earth. At the centre, on the natural surface, lay 

 the body of a woman in the middle period of life, on the left side, 

 with the head to N., and the hands just above the knees. In 

 contact with the body was the usual accompaniment of charcoal. 

 Amongst the material of the mound were a very well-made small 

 oval flint scraper ; pieces of two or three vessels of pottery of the 

 same kind as that found in the last barrow ; the tine of a red-deer's 

 antler, 4J in. long, cut off from the horn, and rubbed smooth towards 

 the point as if by use ; and several split bones of oxen. 



There was nothing in these four barrows to show that they 

 belonged to a period different from that of the ordinary class, so 

 many of which have been already described, except the glass beads, 

 the fibula and the armlets ; the occurrence of the bones of the 

 horse is also unusual, though it has occasionally been met with in 

 the barrows. The bodies were in the contracted position so universal 

 throughout the burials of the wolds ; the usual accompaniments of 

 charcoal, flint chippings and potsherds were found here also ; and, 

 although the pottery was of a different ware from that of which the 

 common cinerary urns, ' food vessels,' and ' drinking cups ' are made, 

 yet I have met with the same kind of hard, well-baked, dark- 

 coloured, plain pottery in barrows of the ordinary kind. The holes 



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