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change had taken place in the form and ornamentation of sepul- 

 chral vessels. It is however, on the whole, more probable that the 

 secondary interments were of people who had been near relatives of 

 those over whom the mound was first raised, and that the disturbance 

 of the barrow for these took place at no great interval of time after 

 it was first thrown up. 



At a distance of 4 ft. east of the edge of this cutting, and 2 ft. 

 above the natural surface, were found some fragments of a human 

 skull, which seemed to have formed no part of a body buried entire 

 at the place, but rather to have been laid there as fragmentary 

 bones ; there being no signs of any disturbance of the mound at 

 the point in question to account for them as parts of a body which 

 had ever been removed. 



At the centre, and conterminous with the circuit of the cutting 

 so often before mentioned, was a grave 9 ft. in diameter, excavated 

 in the chalk, which it was evident had either been first made, or 

 else enlarged when the cutting itself was sunk through the barrow. 

 This was made clear not only by the fact that the sides of the 

 cutting through the mound and those of the grave were conter- 

 minous, but also from the remains of disturbed and broken-up 

 bones and vases which occurred at various places throughout the 

 whole of the filling-in of the excavation, from the level of the surface 

 of the ground downwards. The upper part of the grave for a depth 

 of 2 ft., on the south side, was filled in with earth ; while, on the 

 north side, it was filled in with pure chalk to the same depth. 

 Below this was chalk with some admixture of earth. At a depth, 

 of 4^ ft. four flags % of oolitic sandstone were met with, laid flat, 

 and filling up the greater part of the area of the grave. The upper 

 one was 2 ft. by 1 ft. 10 in., and was placed upon the edge of 

 another, which was 3 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 6 in. ; the second of these 

 flags overlaid a third, 3 ft. 8 in. by 3 ft. 3 in., both showing very 

 distinct marks of fire upon the upper surface, the burning being 

 more evident upon the lower one ; to the south-east of these was 

 the fourth stone, 4 ft. 8 in. by 1 ft. 9 in. ; and on the south side 

 of the grave, but standing on their edges, with a slight inclination 

 towards the side, were two similar slabs, one of them 2 ft. broad, 

 the other 2 ft. 4 in., the first being 2 ft. 2 in. in length, and the 

 other 3 ft. 4 in. These last stones rested at the same level as the 

 four which were laid flat. Under these stones the grave was filled 

 in with earth, and on the bottom, 6 ft. below the stones and 10J ft. 

 below the surface of the ground, were placed two cists, made of 



