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contained a quantity of dark-coloured matter, which has been 

 analysed, and appears to have been of vegetable origin. 



A large barrow about 70 ft. in diameter was found to have been 

 previously opened, and as no remains of burnt bones were dis- 

 covered, it is most probable that the burial or burials had been 

 by inhumation. It contained a grave at the centre. 



C. Another barrow proved, though it was quite undisturbed, to 

 be very unproductive, since no interment was discovered in it. 

 The mound was 45 ft. in diameter, 2% ft. high, and made of 

 earth. At a distance of 8J ft. north-east-by-north from the centre, 

 in a slight depression on the surface of the ground, was found 

 a vessel of pottery of a rather rude description. It is 4J- in. high, 

 4f in. wide at the mouth, and 4 in. at the bottom. The ornamen- 

 tation consists of three encircling lines of thong-impressions, very 

 roughly applied, below the lip ; then at the shoulder is a row of 

 oval impressions which goes round the vase; then come two 

 encircling lines, similar to the first three ; and then a band of 

 lines 2^ in. long of the same impressions, slightly inclining to the 

 left, covers the rest of the vessel. Seven feet south-west of the 

 centre a single piece of burnt bone was found on the natural 

 surface, but whether it is human or animal it is not now possible 

 to decide. 



CI. The next barrow had been the largest of the whole group, 

 and was 120 ft. in diameter. It had been almost entirely removed, 

 about 30 years ago, by the then tenant, when some unburnt bodies 

 and two vessels of pottery were discovered. From the information I 

 received from a person who was present when it was carted away to 

 be spread on the land, the whole central part of the mound showed 

 evident signs of the material having been burnt, of which I myself 

 found the strongest corroboration in what was still left of it un- 

 touched. For a space of about 30 ft. in diameter the whole surface of 

 the ground at the centre was very much reddened by the action of 

 fire, and the material above the surface showed the same signs 

 of burning. Through this burnt matter was sunk a grave, lying 

 north- west-by-west and south-east-by-east, 11J ft. by 6| ft. and 

 8 ft. deep. It had apparently been originally filled in with chalk, 

 which again appeared to have been partly taken out, so as to form 

 a funnel-shaped excavation, to within 4 ft. of the bottom ; this 



