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in diameter, 2 ft. high, and made of earth. At the centre there 

 was an oval grave, north-west by south-east, 7 ft. in the longer 

 diameter, 4 ft. wide, and 2J ft. deep. In it was the body of an 

 adult, laid on the left side, with the head to S.E., the right hand up 

 to the face, and the left on the chest. In the making of this grave 

 a burnt adult body and the unburnt one of a child had been dis- 

 placed ; remains of both, together with pieces of a ' drinking cup J 

 and of a cinerary urn, being found in the filling-in of the grave. 



LVI. Close to this was another barrow, 50 ft. in diameter, If ft. 

 high, and made of earth. At the centre, in a slight hollow, 4f by 

 4 ft. and only 4 in. deep, were two bodies. The first, an adult 

 male between 24 and 30 years of age, was laid on the right 

 side, and had the head to N.W., the right hand being in front of 

 the face but not close to it, the left arm extended and with the 

 fingers touching the knees. Between the right hand and the face 

 was a vessel of pottery, so much decayed that nothing more can be 

 made out with regard to it than that it appears to have been of the 

 type of ' food vessel/ of small size and covered over the whole sur- 

 face with a pattern of an irregularly-reticulated character made by 

 a sharp-pointed tool. The head of the second body, also that of a 

 man about the same age as the first, almost touched the vase, and 

 was to S.E.; the body was laid on the left side, and with the hands 

 up to the face. Under this body was a large quantity of dark- 

 coloured matter like decayed wood, and it is probable that in this, 

 as in other cases, the body had been placed upon wooden planks. 

 Close to these two bodies were some scattered bones of an adult 

 male and of a child. In the material of the barrow were a few 

 bones of ox, some flint chippings, and one potsherd. 



From the position of these two bodies, interred in the same 

 grave and with their heads almost in contact, it seems reasonable 

 to infer that it was the burial-place of two persons nearly related, 

 and probably, from their age, brothers. It would seem from the 

 fact that some bones of a man and child were found close to the 

 two bodies that they had been secondary interments, and that the 

 first occupants of the barrow had been disturbed for their burial. 



LVIL The next barrow, which lay about half a mile to the 

 north-west of the four lately described and attributed to the Early 

 Iron Age, had never been ploughed over. It was 56 ft. in diameter, 

 6 ft. high, and made of earth. The greater part of the northern 



