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elbow. At the crown of the head, but a little behind and above it, 

 was a vessel of pottery reversed. It is in form a perfect cinerary 

 urn, like fig-. 56, 5 J in. high, 5J in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at 

 the bottom. The rim has three encompassing rows of short lines 

 made with a sharp-pointed tool, arranged herring-bone fashion, 

 and the part immediately below the rim has two similar rows con- 

 tinuing the same pattern. At the back of the neck was a pendent 

 ornament of lignite, very neatly made ; it is somewhat like a flat 

 plummet, fin. long, Jin. wide at the bottom, T 3 F in. at the top, 

 and T 3 F in. thick ; the bottom is rounded, and the perforation near 

 the top has been drilled from both sides 1 . Three feet south of the 

 centre, 1 ft. 8 in. above the surface-level, and 1 ft. 2 in. below the 

 dark line above mentioned, and therefore within the limits of the 

 original barrow, was the mastoid process of the right temporal 

 bone of a child, the last undecayed remains of the body once 

 deposited there. It did not appear as if this interment had been 

 inserted into the original barrow, for there were no signs of the 

 very regular lines of the material of the mound having been cut 

 through. A vessel of pottery had been associated with the body ; 

 it is in shape a cinerary urn, somewhat like fig. 56 ; 4J in. high, 

 4 in. wide at the mouth, and 2J in. at the bottom. The over- 

 hanging rim has three encompassing bands of short marks, arranged 

 in a rough herring-bone fashion; below the rim a zigzag line, 

 1 in. deep, encompasses the vase ; all the marking has been done 

 with a pointed instrument. Seven feet east-south-east of the centre 

 was a deposit of burnt bones, those of an adult, almost certainly 

 a female, laid on the natural surface in a round heap 13 in. in 

 diameter ; the body had not been burnt on the spot. Three feet 

 nearer to the centre, and at the same level as the burnt body, 

 was an unburnt body of a young person, laid on the right side, 

 with the head to E.S.E., the hands being in front of the chest. 

 The back of this body was laid to the back of a large and 

 strongly-made man, who had been placed on the left side, with 

 the head to S.S.E., but the head and upper portion of the man as 

 well as the lower parts of the younger person were wanting, having 



1 I found a somewhat similar- shaped ornament, but more rudely fashioned, and of 

 inferior material, in a barrow on Wykeham Moor, but not associated with any inter- 

 ment. Pendent ornaments have occurred in Wiltshire made of gold, and also of 

 amber, and of gold and amber combined; and one of jet, almost the counterpart of this 

 in question, was found, with some cylindrical beads, associated with a burnt body 

 in a barrow on Tan Hill, North Wilts; it is engraved in Archaeol., vol. xliii. p. 510. 

 fig. 200. 



