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appears to imply some such relationship ; and we may fairly 

 assume that the body in contact with which the ear-rings were 

 found was that of a woman : had the bones been less decayed, as- 

 sumption would of course have given place to certainty. It cannot 

 however be positively asserted that both the burials had taken 

 place at the same time, and thus we are without any very strong 

 presumptive evidence in this case that the wife had been killed on 

 the occasion of her husband's funeral, though it is highly probable 

 that the graves were contemporaneous. This barrow affords an- 

 other instance of the fact that, after the introduction of bronze, 

 axe-hammers of stone continued to be used. 



In the material of the mound, here and there, were many flint 

 cores, flakes, and chippings, as well as two drills ; two round 

 scrapers ; a broad leaf-shaped arrow-point, all of flint ; and a flat 

 circular piece of stone, struck off from a water-rolled quartzite 

 pebble, and which had been used for both polishing and hammering ; 

 it is 4 in. in diameter. 



LIX. The second barrow was 70 ft. in diameter, 1^ ft. high, and 

 made up of earth and chalk-rubble. Sixteen feet south-south-west 

 of the centre, and upon the natural surface, was the body of a 

 person of full size, laid on the right side, with the head to W., and 

 the hands up to the face. Two feet behind the back of this body 

 was the skull of a child. Touching the face of the child, with the 

 cutting edge towards it, was a narrow chisel-like implement of 

 hone-stone. It is 3f in. long, and J in. wide at the edge, which is 

 slightly splintered, probably by use ; it is ground over the whole 

 surface. Ten feet south-east of the centre was one of those enig- 

 matical holes, so often referred to in earlier pages, 2 ft. in diameter 

 and 2f ft. deep ; in it was some charcoal, and near the top a flint 

 chipping and some bones of a pig. Six feet north-west of the 

 centre was the body of a strongly-made man in middle life, laid on 

 the natural surface, and upon the left side, the head being to E., 

 the right hand to the knees, the fingers however turned up to- 

 wards the face, the left hand in front of the face, the fingers doubled 

 in. Behind the head was a small round flint scraper and a very 

 well made oval flint knife, 2 in. long and 1J in. wide, and 

 carefully flaked over the whole of the convex face. Nine feet 

 west of the centre, and placed upon the natural surface, were parts 

 of the pelvic bones, a clavicle, and several other bones, the remains 

 of a body which had been disturbed, either by rabbit-digging or 



