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the secondary cutting had been made, that being filled in with 

 chalk. It is almost certain that the occupant of the primary grave 

 was the woman whose bones had been disturbed and replaced, and 

 that the cutting of secondary date had been made when the body 

 was buried whose skeleton was found at the north-west end. 



Seventy-six feet east of the grave, about the middle of the 

 mound, and 4^ ft. above the natural surface, were many bones 

 belonging to a man of large stature, together with others of a 

 child's body, and a single piece of burnt bone. They were all laid 

 in a heap, and had evidently been moved and redeposited. Imme- 

 diately south of them, but at a slightly lower level, was the body 

 of a child, during the period of the first dentition, laid on its left 

 side, with the head to E.S.E. It is not improbable that the inter- 

 ment of the child had led to the disturbance of the other bodies. 

 On the south side of the mound, 68 ft. east of the centre of the 

 grave and 1 ft. above the surface-level, was a single human meta- 

 carpal bone. 



A second mound, 190 ft. long by 50 ft. wide, and 4 ft. high, 

 extended from the west end of the mound just described, towards 

 the north, where it gradually died away into the natural surface of 

 the ground. There was no burial found in it, although flint chip- 

 pings, charcoal, and fragments of pottery occurred in several dif- 

 ferent places. It should be remarked that in the first of these 

 mounds numerous bones of ox and pig with a few of dog, flint 

 chippings, sherds of plain, dark-coloured pottery, and charcoal were 

 met with throughout the whole of its length, and principally at 

 the level of the natural surface. Amongst the flint objects were 

 five round scrapers and a pointed tool. 



It seems difficult to account for these extensive and peculiarly 

 arranged mounds upon any other supposition than that they were 

 intended for sepulchral purposes ; indeed, the presence of charcoal, 

 broken animal bones, potsherds, and flint implements and chip- 

 pings in them makes any other conclusion difficult of adoption. 

 But with the exception of the grave at the west end of the first 

 mound, and its contents, the other burials were all clearly secondary 

 and subsequent to the formation of the mounds; and even the 

 grave itself was not certainly a primary one, made before the 

 throwing up of that part of the mound ; although there were some 

 appearances which seemed to favour that view. The round barrow- 

 like form of the west end, under which the grave was excavated, 

 had however in itself a secondary appearance, and from the circum- 



