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than those which have been already described, but forming a part 

 of the same large group. 



CIV. The first was 56 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, and made up of 

 earth, with some little chalk. At 'the centre was a grave, running 

 nearly due east and west, 5^ ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 2 ft. 4 in. deep. 

 Nine inches higher than the top of the grave, and over the middle 

 of it, was a deposit of burnt bones, laid in a round heap 13 in. in 

 diameter ; they are those of an adult, probably a female. On the 

 bottom of the grave, and at the middle of it, was the" body of 

 a man of great strength, past the middle period of life, laid on 

 the right side, with the head to W. by S., the right hand being 

 between the left thigh and leg, and the left hand across the right 

 elbow. 



CV. This was in one respect the most remarkable barrow I have 

 examined on the wolds, inasmuch as the diameter of the top of 

 the grave was nearly as great as that of the whole mound, which 

 was 48 ft., the height not being above one foot. The grave was 

 36 ft. wide at the top, and decreased, by five successive stages or 

 steps, to a width of 14 ft. at the bottom, the depth being 4 ft. 8 in. 

 Running round more than one-half of the circuit of the grave, from, 

 a point south-south-west of the centre to beyond the opposite north- 

 north-eastern point, was a trench, varying in depth from 1 ft. 9 in. 

 to 2 ft., and 1 ft. 8 in. wide, the outer edge of which coincided with 

 the edge of the bottom of the grave. The trench was filled in with 

 chalk-rubble, as indeed was nearly the whole of the grave, and 

 badgers had made an earth in the trench, finding it easier to work 

 amongst the loose material there than in the undisturbed chalk rock ; 

 the head of one of these animals and several other bones were met 

 with. On the bottom of the grave (if that name ought to be given 

 to the excavation), and 2 ft. north of the centre, was the body of a 

 man in the middle period of life, laid on the left side, with the head 

 to S. by W., and the hands up to the face, the fingers being doubled 

 in. Amongst the material which filled in the grave were many 

 bones of a young red-deer, and a piece of a skull and some other 

 human bones ; and at one place a great part of the bones of the 

 right leg of a young and small- sized ox and the right tibia of a pig 

 were met with. At the bottom of the grave were the bones of 

 several animals, including badger, red-deer, ox, young pig, hare, 

 and also bones of pigeon and of two gallinaceous birds ; these last, 



