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present on these occasions was that commonly resorted to. The 

 mound, which had never been ploughed over, was not circular, being 

 44 ft. long by 32 ft. broad, and having a direction east-by-south 

 and north-by-west ; it was 6 ft. high,, and made of earth and chalk. 

 Immediately below the surface of the mound numerous bones 

 belonging to several bodies were met with, the remains of later 

 interments, which had been disturbed in digging for rabbits and in 

 planting the trees with which the mound was at one time covered. 

 At a distance of 12^ ft. south-by-east from the centre, and 2ft. 

 below the surface of the barrow, was the body of an aged 

 woman, laid with the head to E. Immediately under the hips of 

 this body, and 8 in. below it, was a vessel of pottery reversed. It 

 is in shape like an ordinary flower-pot, quite plain, 4f in. high, 

 5-| in. wide at the mouth, and 3J in. at the bottom. Behind the 

 back of this body were some parts of a child's skull. At the same 

 distance south-east-by-south of the centre, and upon the natural 

 surface, was a deposit of burnt bones, those of an adult, probably a 

 woman. Eleven feet south-east-by-east from the centre, and 2 ft. 

 below the surface of the barrow, was the body of a child about 

 8 years of age, which had the head to E., but of which the bones 

 were too much decayed to allow the position of the body in other 

 respects to be made out. About 8 in. below the head of this child 

 was a vessel of pottery. It is too much decayed to admit of more 

 being said of it than that it has been of small size and ornamented 

 on the upper part with short lines made by a pointed tool. Just 

 west of the centre, and 2 ft. below the surface of the barrow, was 

 the skull belonging to the disturbed body of a man in middle life, 

 several bones of which, as well as the bones of another body, were 

 found throughout the mound at this part, and even down to the 

 natural surface. It is possible that these bodies had been disturbed 

 in making the grave which was met with at the centre. This was 

 6 ft. long, 3 ft. wide, and the same in depth, having a direction 

 north-north-west and south -south-east, and was filled in with 

 chalk. On the bottom, and about the centre of the grave, was the 

 body of a girl about 17 years of age, laid on the right side, her 

 head to W.N.W., and the hands up to the face. Bound her neck 

 were 124 beads of jet, all of which were small circular thin 

 perforated disks, except a larger central one, semicircular in form, 

 with two grooves across its flat top. But for the pendant being 

 rounder and having these grooves, the necklace is almost identical 

 with one found in a barrow at Weaverthorpe and figured p. 53. The 



