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of age, laid on the left side, the head to S.S.E., and the hands 

 on the chest. At a distance of 7 ft. west-by-south of the centre, 

 and H ft. above the natural surface, were two bodies, both placed 

 on the left side, and having the heads to N. by W. The one, that 

 of a strongly-made man past the middle period of life, had the arms 

 crossed in front of the chest, and upon them and laid between 

 the knees and head was the second body, that of a boy or girl 

 below the age of puberty, whose hands were to the knees. Nine 

 feet east of the Centre, and deposited on the natural surface, was 

 the body of a young person, probably a boy about 17 or 18 years of 

 age, laid on the right side, having the head to E., and the hands up 

 to the face; in contact with this body were some burnt bones. At the 

 same level, and 7 ft. north-east-by-north of the centre, was a body, 

 probably that of a woman between 40 and 45 years of age, laid on 

 the left side, the head to E.S.E., and the hands to the knees. In 

 front of the face was a 'drinking cup,' of a novel form [fig. 84]. 

 It is 8i in. high, 5 in. wide at the mouth. 3J in. at the bottom, and 

 is ornamented over the whole surface ; the nature of the ornamenta- 

 tion will best be understood from the figure. The pattern is formed 

 by impressions of twisted thong, aided in some parts by a sharp- 

 pointed tool. Just above the surface-level, and 9J ft. north-by-west 

 of the centre, was the body of a child, laid on the left side, the head 

 to W. by S. In front of the face was a ' food vessel,' 4| in. high, 

 4f in. wide at the mouth and 2| in. at the bottom. It is shaped 

 roughly like fig. 71, and is but slightly ornamented, having a row 

 of dotted impressions running round the inside of the lip of the rim, 

 the outside of which has three encircling lines of thong-impressions 

 upon it ; at the shoulder are two encircling rows of short lines, 

 inclining to the right, made by a bluntly-pointed tool. At a 

 distance of 7 ft. north-north-west of the centre, and 1 ft. above the 

 natural surface, was the body of a large man, laid on the left side, 

 .and whose head, when there, must have been to W. by N. The 

 head and part of the back had however been cut away when the 

 partial opening before alluded to had been made. Another body, 

 that of a woman, seems to have been discovered on the same 

 occasion, for portions of the skulls and other bones of three adults 

 (some of them clearly belonging to that one a part of whose skeleton 

 was still left undisturbed) had been collected together, and put into 

 a hole made below the pelvis of the partially removed body. 

 Immediately north-west of the present centre was the edge of a 

 grave, lying north-by-west and south-by-east, 5| ft. by 4J ft. and 



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