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kind of cover was a smaller one, which was reversed [fig. 147]. It 

 is quite plain, 3% in. high, the same in width at the mouth, and 

 2J in. at the bottom, and has two ears on opposite sides, perforated, 

 not as is usually the case with a horizontal piercing but vertically l . 

 The larger urn had been ornamented after a fashion which is not 

 very common in such vessels, having had an encircling line formed 

 by a series of wide loops [fig. 148]. Amongst the burnt bones was 

 a single piece of calcined flint. On the east side of the space 

 within the circle was another cinerary urn, like the first placed 

 on the natural surface, and also filled with burnt bones. It was 

 however so much decayed that neither shape, size, nor pattern of 



Fig. 147. |. 



ornamentation could be made out. Three feet east of the circle 

 and 2 ft. above the natural surface was a single piece of pottery. 

 Over the circle and the space included within it, the stones com- 

 posing the mound were much burnt, and a considerable quantity of 

 burnt earth was mixed with them. Upon the flooring of pebble- 

 stones mentioned above, but not associated with the burnt bones, 

 was a flat oval-shaped quartz pebble, If in. long and If in. wide; 

 it is much bruised all round the edge, but more so at either end 

 than elsewhere. It has been used for hammering, or more 

 probably in the process of taking off flakes of flint from the block. 



1 Vessels possessing the same peculiarity of having the holes made vertically 

 through a projection have been found in other places. At Broughton, in Hampshire, 

 a vessel not very unlike this was met with associated with a deposit of burnt bones. 

 Journ. of Arch. Inst., vol. ix. p. 11. 



