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on one face. In the right hand was a piece of iron ore much 

 oxidised, no doubt the ' steel ' with which, in combination with the 

 chert flake just described, this Ancient Briton had obtained fire. 

 This is the third instance where I have met with a man buried with 

 his ' flint and steel,' the other two having both been in one barrow 

 near Rudstone [No. Ixviii]. In front of the face was another and 

 thin flake of chert ; it is 2 in. long, J. in. wide, chipped along both 

 edges, and has most probably served the purpose of a knife. Close 

 to the body was half of the lower jaw of a young fox. With many 

 other unburnt human bones scattered in various parts of the cairn 

 were found some burnt bones of an adult and of two children. In 

 the cairn were also found a bone pin, 5J in. long ; some bones and 

 teeth of ox, red-deer,, and of a small horse ; and three sherds of 

 pottery of the ordinary description. 



CLXXV. The next cairn, like the last, had been robbed of the 

 greater part of the stones of which it had been composed. It was 

 27ft. in diameter, and, placed upon an outcrop of the limestone 

 rock, was still about 1 ft. high. It contained a single interment 

 of an unburnt body, that of a very strongly made man past the 

 middle period of life, who had been laid on the natural surface at 

 the centre of the mound. Amongst the broken and scattered bones 

 was a piece of a ' drinking cup,' very possibly a part of what had 

 once been a whole vessel deposited with the buried person, the 

 rest having been carried off* by the people who had removed the 

 greater part of the cairn. 



CLXXVI. The last of the three cairns was 80yds. distant to 

 the east of that just described, and placed like it on an outcrop 

 of rock ; it was 23 ft. in diameter, and still about 1 ft. high. The 

 whole of the mound to the south of the centre was full of broken 

 and scattered human bones, of which those of an adult and of a 

 child can be identified, together with many bones of ox and goat. 

 At the centre and laid on the natural surface was the burnt body 

 of an adult woman, and immediately overlying the calcined bones 

 and in contact with them were the unburnt bodies of two infants. 

 All round and over these bodies were the bones of water-voles in 

 hundreds so numerous indeed were they that at the point in- 

 dicated the material of the cairn seemed almost to consist entirely 

 of them. Amongst them was the head of a foumart (mustela 

 putorius), the lower and part of the upper jaw of a cat, probably 



