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the wild species, and half the lower jaw of a large dog, and the 

 same of a goat. The foumart must have been much larger, and 

 the cat smaller, than their representatives now existing. At a 

 short distance from the burnt bones, but in that part of the cairn 

 which had been completely disturbed, was a single bead of what 

 appears from its colour and other characteristics to be jet, but 

 which is wanting in the electric property of that material, and 

 therefore probably made of some inferior kind of lignite. It is 

 oblong (If in. long and J in. wide), flat, perforated longitudinally 

 by four holes, and though quite plain is in other respects like 

 fig. 51 on p. 54. There can be no doubt that at one time it had 

 formed part of a necklace in combination with others like it and 

 with cylindrically-shaped beads ; necklaces of this description, 

 having at times the large flat beads highly decorated, have been 

 met with not unfrequently in various parts of Britain. Not 

 far distant from the bead was a bone pin perforated at the 

 head, and still, though it has lost quite one-fourth part of its 

 length, 5| in. long; together with this was found a small bone 

 chisel, 2^ in. long, and] J in. wide at the cutting edge ; and also 

 about one-third part of a novel article made from the leg bone 

 of some animal, having a pattern which will be best understood 

 from the engraving [fig. 53]. It has probably been an ornament, 

 though the perforations, three of which exist upon that portion 

 still remaining, may suggest some other purpose. These holes 

 are not pierced through the bone from front to back, but are 

 made in the thickness of it, being so connected with each other 

 that a thong or string could be run through from one outer 

 hole to the other ; in this respect it agrees with the ring figured 

 on p. 34. The pattern is a very characteristic one, and is not unlike 

 what is found on some of the ' drinking cups ' of the round barrows. 

 I have never before met with anything like it, nor have I seen 

 any description of a similar article. The os calcis and another 

 bone of a wild boar, both gnawed apparently by a dog, were 

 found in the cairn. 



Though so much destroyed by the removal of its greater part, 

 this cairn nevertheless presents some features of considerable im- 

 portance. The close juxtaposition of the burnt and the unburnt 

 bodies makes it quite certain that the several interments must 

 have taken place at the same time, and we have thus another 

 instance, and from a new district, of the absolute contemporaneity 

 of the two modes of burial, by inhumation and after cremation. 



