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at the back pierced from the middle to the side 1 . Eight feet 



north-east of the centre, and one foot below the surface of the 



barrow, was an urn lying amongst a deposit of burnt bones. This 



vessel is rudely made, quite plain and without any rim; it is 



4| in. wide at the mouth, 2f in. at the bottom, and 5 in. high. 



Amongst the bones were four pieces of calcined flint, which bear 



the appearance of having been portions of fabricated implements, 



and a flint chipping unburnt. At the centre, and 1 ft. below the 



surface of the barrow, were many portions of three urns, apparently 



cinerary, in company with burnt bones, the urns seeming to 



have been broken by the introduction of a secondary interment. 



One of these vessels has had an overhanging 



rim, and is ornamented, both upon the rim and 



below it, with impressions of an oval-pointed 



instrument ; the other two have twisted-thong 



markings upon them. The introduced burial 



was found 2 ft. south-east of the centre, at 



which point, and 2 ft. below the surface of the 



barrow, was placed a flat stone covering a 



cinerary urn standing upright and carefully 



packed round with charcoal. The urn was about 



one-third full of burnt bones, the remains of a 



person scarcely of full age, and either of a 



female or a man of small stature ; the space 



remaining above them was occupied partly 



by charcoal, and partly by a second urn in an inverted position, 



full of earth, with a few burnt bones. Amongst the bones in 



the larger or inclosing urn was a burnt flint [fig. 151], which 



may have been a knife 2 . It has lost part of its broader end 



during the process of burning ; one face is flat, just as it was 



taken off from the core, the other is carefully flaked along both 



edges to a point at the end. The larger vessel [fig. 56] is 12| in. 



high, lOf in. wide at the mouth, and 3 Jin. at the bottom. The 



two encircling lines on the inside of the lip of the rim have 



1 This jet article might have been considered as a button and not a bead, if the per- 

 foration at the back had not run through to the side. In several instances what would 

 ordinarily have been regarded as buttons have been discovered in close connection with 

 other jet objects which evidently formed portions of necklaces, and have been in those 

 cases classed as beads. 



2 A similarly -shaped flint implement was found in an urn with burnt bones., under 

 a barrow at Broughton, in Lincolnshire. It is noticed in the Journal of the Arch. Inst., 

 vol. via. p. 344, and is there called an arrow-head. 



