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accidental position near the bones. At a distance of 4 ft. north- 

 west from the head of this body was the head of another, that of 

 an aged female, laid on the right side, the head to W., with a bone- 

 pin in front of the face, and having none of the bones of the body 

 associated with it. The head in question was itself laid upon the 

 upper part of the thigh-bones of another body, that of a small and 

 slightly-made man in the middle period of life. This last body 

 was laid on the right side, with the head to W.S.W., and the 

 hands up to the face. There was but one femur and one iliac bone, 

 but neither of the tibias seemed ever to have been disturbed. All 

 these bodies had a good deal of charcoal about them, and were 

 deposited upon the natural surface. Two feet north-east from the 

 head of the last body was that of a child, laid on its left side, and 

 with the head to S.S.E. About 2f ft. north from the same body 

 was another child, laid on the right side, the head to E., but, un- 

 like the rest, placed at a height of about 1 ft. above the natural 

 surface. A little to the west of it, but at a lower level, was a body 

 without a head and laid on the right side, the hands being placed 

 in front of where the head naturally would have been, and which, 

 if present, would have pointed to W.S.W. This body, which was 

 that of a large man, and certainly not that to which the separate 

 head above mentioned had belonged, was laid about 6 in. above the 

 natural surface, and the knees were about 1 ft. to the rear of the 

 head of the body, on the thigh-bones of which the bodiless head 

 was placed. Upon the hips of the child first mentioned was the 

 head of another child, the bones of which were so much decayed, 

 that nothing more could be made out as to its position beyond the 

 fact that the head was to S.E. The whole of the burials, these 

 last mentioned as well as those found on the north side of the 

 barrow laid upon the pavement, were placed more or less in a line 

 running south-east by north-west. 



A vessel of pottery was discovered, reversed, and not near any 

 interment, at a point 24 ft. south-west of the centre and just above 

 the natural surface. It is of rather peculiar shape, not unlike the 

 lower half of fig. 69, 2f in. high, 4i in. wide at the mouth, and 

 2|r in. at the bottom ; the upper part for an inch in depth is orna- 

 mented with irregularly-formed twisted-thong impressions, placed 

 roughly herring-bone fashion. A very large number of flint flakes 

 and chippings were found dispersed throughout the barrow, besides 

 two arrow-points, one a beautifully- formed example [fig. 114], 1| in. 

 long and in. wide, the other smaller and less elongated. There were 



