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have examined, is not without precedent *. Such natural decora- 

 tions are common to savage and semi-savage people in all parts of 

 the world,, and indeed I have seen an Australian necklace of 

 kangaroo teeth, which forms by no means an inelegant ornament ; 

 and radiating as it would do when placed round the neck, and the 

 white colour of the teeth shining and glancing in the light, it 

 doubtless added no slight additional grace to the dusky beauty it 

 adorned. Teeth of dogs, wolves and bears have been abundantly 

 discovered on the site of the Swiss Lake Dwellings ; and I have 

 several horse and dog teeth, found in a cave in the county of 

 Durham, together with a large number of bronze weapons and 

 implements, several ornaments of bronze, and two of gold. Below 

 this body was a grave, lying north-north-west and south-south- 

 east, 7 ft. by 2 ft. and 2f ft. deep. In it, on the bottom and 

 about the middle, was the body of a young man between 18 and 

 20 years of age, laid on the left side, with the head to S.S.E. and 

 the hands up to the face. This barrow, instead of being placed 

 as is usual upon a swell on the surface, had been made in a slight 

 depression, and was therefore not so conspicuous as it would 

 otherwise have been. 



The two barrows just described give us reason to believe that the 

 existing sepulchral mounds by no means represent the number of 

 those which were originally on the wolds. If the land upon which 

 these two were placed had been subjected to the action of the plough 

 for but a very few years, there would not have been the slightest 

 trace of them remaining ; and it is possible that numerous 

 similarly-sized barrows may have already wholly disappeared in 

 the course of cultivation. This may also explain the fact that 

 graves are sometimes found in the chalk rock, where there is 

 now no appearance remaining of any mound above them. 



The three barrows about to be described were situated close to 

 the last two, though beyond the limits of the road set apart as a 

 race-course, the two first being to the west, the third to the east of 

 the road. 



CXVIII. The first was 48 ft. in diameter, 2| ft. high, and made 



1 A canine tooth of a, large dog or wolf, perforated through the middle, now in the 

 York Museum, was discovered in a barrow at Hutton Cranswick, in the East Riding. 

 Proc. of Yorkshire Phil. Soc. 1847-54, p. 185. A necklace, consisting of seventeen 

 perforated teeth of wolf or dog, was found by Sir R. Colt Hoare in a Wiltshire 

 barrow. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 214. 



