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about 2 ft. long, may very possibly represent what had once been 

 a club, or other implement of wood. Throughout that part of the 

 barrow which was above the grave, and in the grave itself down to 

 the level of the last-described interment, were several disturbed 

 bones of two bodies, an adult and a child. The grave was oval, 

 having a direction east-by-south and west-by-north, 6 ft. long, 

 4f ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep. At the bottom and about the centre 

 was the body of a man in the middle period of life, laid on the 

 right side, with the head to N.E. by E., and the hands in front of 

 the chest. Under the neck was a small conical bone button J in. in 

 diameter, similar in shape to the jet buttons which have been 

 frequently met with, and before described. Behind the shoulders 

 was a 'food vessel.' The head had been protected by three flat 

 pieces of chalk set on edge, with another laid upon them, and the 

 vase was placed just outside them. Close to the feet were the 

 ' trotters ' of a young pig, making the third . instance in the two 

 barrows now under notice where portions of animal food had 

 apparently been deposited in connection with the interments. 

 The vase is in shape somewhat like fig. 72, 6^ in. high, 6f in. 

 wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom. The inside of the lip 

 has three encircling lines of thong-impressions, very irregularly 

 placed. The whole vessel is covered with slightly-made impres- 

 sions of loosely-twisted thong, arranged without any order and 

 forming no pattern. The paste is full of large pieces of stone, and 

 the vessel is as rude and badly manufactured as it is possible to 

 conceive. There was an absence of chippings or implements of 

 flint amongst the material of this mound, as was also the case in 

 the barrow last described, but a few pieces of different kinds of 

 pottery were found here and there. The jaw of a large dog and 

 the tooth of an ox were also met with amongst the undisturbed 

 material. 



The discovery of the beads, with their peculiar marking, requires 

 a more special notice than has yet been given to them. The cross 

 which in various forms appears upon them must, I think, be 

 regarded merely as ornamental, and not as having any symbolical 

 meaning, though it does not in this instance seem to fit in with 

 the form of the article to which it is applied so naturally as upon 

 the buttons already noticed. I am inclined to think that the very 

 variety itself under which the form occurs is in favour of its being 

 decorative, for had it been intended to serve as a representation or 

 symbol of some religious or other idea, it seems scarcely likely that 



