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with a single stone employed as a cover. The cist contained no 

 trace of the body at one time no doubt deposited in it, and 

 which had probably been an unburnt one and had gone entirely 

 to decay ; a circumstance (as noticed a few pages back) of by no 

 means uncommon occurrence in cases of cist or other places of 

 burial made in porous soil and not far from the surface. Some 

 unburnt flint chippings were found amongst the material of which 

 the barrow was composed. 



CXXXVI. The next barrow was 42ft. in diameter and 2ft. 

 high. It was very flat, though still decidedly curvilinear in out- 

 line, and not level-topped like the second one of this group. On 

 the east side was a quantity of stones, not however arranged in 

 any order. At the centre was a circular hollow, 2f ft. in diameter 

 and sunk 14 in. below the natural surface. In it were deposited 

 the bones of a burnt body, that of an adult, and upon them was 

 placed an ' incense cup' reversed. It had almost gone back to 

 its first condition of clay, and neither pattern nor dimensions could 

 be made out. The hollow itself, which had been formed in the 

 sand, was lined with clay; the body had been burnt over the 

 hole, the clay having been converted by the action of the fire 

 into a substance nearly as hard as brick. In the material of 

 the barrow were found some clippings of unburnt flint. 



CXXXVII. The sixth and last barrow was 56ft. in diameter 

 and 3 ft. high. At the centre was a hollow slightly oval in form, 

 being 4J ft. by 4 ft., and sunk 1 ft. below the natural surface. 

 In it were placed the very completely calcined remains of a burnt 

 body, upon which was laid a { food vessel.' It is well made and 

 delicately ornamented, in shape like fig. 71, with four unpierced 

 ears, 4| in. high, 5 in. wide at the rim, and 2| in. at the bottom. 

 The inside of the lip of the rim has three encircling bands of short 

 twisted-thong markings arranged herring-bone fashion. The out- 

 side of the lip has a single band of sloping thong-marks on the 

 edge, whilst below that and above the shoulder is another band 

 of the same marks sloping in the contrary direction, and forming 

 with the band on the outside of the lip a series of chevrons on 

 edge encompassing the vase ; next comes a band of upright horse- 

 shoe-shaped marks, having below it an encircling line of fine 

 twisted-thong impression, and then a band of short upright thong- 

 markings. On the shoulder are two bands of similar marks, 



