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of earth. At the centre was a grave, the longer axis of which was 

 north-west-by-north and south-east-by-south, 7 ft. long, 2J ft. wide, 

 and 2J ft. deep. The grave had been lined on the bottom with 

 wood, and upon that at the southern end had been laid the body of 

 a, young person of uncertain sex, placed on the right side, the head 

 to S.E. by E., and the hands up to the face. Behind and at the 

 crown of the head was a ' food vessel,' rudely made, and in shape 

 somewhat like fig. 69 but narrower, 7 in. high, 6 in. wide at the rim, 

 and 3 in. at the bottom. The ornamentation, which is confined to the 

 upper 2 \ in. of the vase, consists of two bands of lines on the inside 

 and one on the edge of the lip, and five below the lip, all encircling 

 the vessel, and made with very short pieces of thick cord placed 

 vertically. In the grave, and close to the head of the body, was 

 some yellowish-red ochre, a substance which has been met with in 

 connection with other burials. Some potsherds of plain dark- 

 coloured ware occurred amongst the material of the mound, and 

 there were also found the humerus of a small-sized horse, some bones 

 of red-deer, pig, and of a very large dog. 



CXIX. The second barrow was very slight in elevation, not being 

 above 6 in. high, and the area was not easily to be determined ; it 

 appeared however to have had a diameter of about 50 ft. It was 

 difficult also to fix upon any place as the exact centre, though it 

 is probable that the grave which it contained was the point from 

 which the mound originated. Four feet to the east of this grave 

 a circular hollow, 3J ft. in width and 2 \ ft. deep, had been excavated 

 in the chalk rock, and then filled in again with chalk-rubble and earth ; 

 it contained nothing beyond the filling-in, and was probably one of 

 those holes, though of a rather larger size than ordinary, which 

 have so frequently been met with in other barrows on the wolds. 

 The grave, like those found in the barrows close adjoining, was 

 oblong, with a direction north-by-west and south-by-east, 6f ft. 

 long, 3J ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep ; it was filled in principally with 

 earth. At the north end was the body of a young person about 

 14 years of age, laid on the right side, with the head to N.N.W., 

 the right hand being at the hips, the left up to the face. At the 

 feet was a ' food vessel/ The remains of wood were found alongside 

 the body and round the head and feet, but there was no trace of 

 its having ever been placed above or below the body. The vase 

 is like fig. 69, and is 5J in. high, \ in. wide at the mouth, and 

 3 1 in. at the bottom. The inside of the lip has two rows of dotted 



