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running into another pierced through parallel to and just within 

 the edge. It is ornamented on both sides with incised lines, some 

 of which cross so as to form a saltire pattern. Although the 

 position in which these articles were found scarcely seems to indicate 

 the place at which they would be met with if they had been used 

 to fasten the dress in which the man had been buried, still I think 

 that must have been the purpose to which they were ordinarily 

 applied. It will be remarked in the account of one of the barrows 

 presently to be described, as well as in that last under notice 

 [Nos. Ix, Ixviii], that a somewhat similar ring was found in connec- 

 tion with buttons, both ring and buttons having been placed in 

 the grave, though not having apparently been at the time of the 



Fig. 118. J-. Fig. 119. i. 



burial in use as parts of the dress. At a point 4 ft. south-east from 

 the head of the man, and at the same level, was the head of a large 

 adult ox (bos longifrons) and a bone of a young pig. Ten feet east 

 by south from the centre, and upon the natural surface, was the 

 body of a man about 55 years of age, laid on the left side, with the 

 head to N.W., the right hand being up to the face and the left to 

 the knees. Large pieces of chalk were placed over the upper part 

 of the body. Some bones of a disturbed body were found near the 

 body under notice, and also several fragments of broken burnt 

 stone, which showed signs of having been previously used in the 

 process of polishing. Immediately to the west of this body were the 

 disturbed bones of a strongly-made man, deposited in a heap, and 

 having a great deal of charcoal and much burnt earth about them. 

 Underneath these bones was a hole, 1 ft. in diameter and \\ ft. 

 deep, filled in with earth, amongst which was much charcoal and a 

 human finger-bone. Nine feet east by south from the present centre, 

 but at a point which no doubt had been the original centre, was an 

 oval grave, running west-north-west and east-south-east, 7 ft. by 

 4J ft., and 2 ft. deep, in which, and near the west-north-west end, 



