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this dark mass, and 4 ft. above the surface-level, was the body of 

 probably a man, about 25 to 30 years of age, laid on the left side, 

 with the head to E.N.E., and the hands up to the face. In front 

 of the knees was a vessel of pottery, too much broken and decayed 

 to admit of either its size or shape being accurately defined. It 

 has much of the form of a cinerary urn, having an overhanging 

 rim which is ornamented with four encircling rows of oval im- 

 pressions in pairs, and having a similar row below the rim ; it 

 appears to have been about 5 in. high. 



Five feet north of the centre, and about 1 ft. above the surface- 

 level, was the body of a young child, the head being to S. 

 At a distance of 8 ft. north-west of the present centre of the 

 barrow was the centre of a second grave, which probably had 

 been originally at the point from whence the mound was com- 

 menced, but which, in consequence of the barrow having been 

 placed on the sharp slope of the hill, and the material having a 

 tendency to fall towards the south-east down the slope, had thus 

 become so far as 8 ft. distant from the present centre. Before 

 describing the contents of this grave it will be necessary to mention 

 that 8 ft. north-north-east of the centre, and at a level of 1 ft, 

 above the surface of the ground, were found the remains of a body, 

 part of which had been removed, and the skull apparently belonging 

 to which was subsequently discovered in the grave. The body was 

 laid on the right side, the head having been to N. when the skull 

 was present ; the lower jaw, the vertebral column, the right femur, 

 the bones of the pelvis and the tibias were however there, and in 

 their proper positions. Upon the knees was a small round flint 

 scraper. At a distance of 6 ft. north-by-west from the centre, and 

 within the limits of the grave just above mentioned, being IJft. 

 below the surface-level, was the body of a man past the middle 

 period of life, laid on the left side, the head to E.S.E., with the hands 

 up to the face. The back was not bowed forward as is usual, but 

 was quite straight, and the femurs stood out at right angles from 

 it. Just beyond the knees was a skull, probably of a man in the 

 middle period of life, with no lower jaw, and which there cannot be 

 much doubt belonged to the body previously described as having 

 been found without a skull, and which had been in part disturbed 

 when this body had been placed in the grave. In front of the face of 

 the undisturbed body, indeed touching the teeth, were two round flint 

 scrapers, whilst under the head was a third and larger one. A line 

 of decayed wood, lying parallel to the body and in front of it, 



