PARISH OF FORD. 



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edge, was revealed. It lay north-east and south-west, being 2 ft. 

 2 in. long by 1 ft. 10 in. wide, and was filled with gravelly sand ; 

 amongst this were the remains of a burnt body, the bones not 

 placed together but scattered about. In the cist were also found 

 some pieces of charcoal, a single potsherd of the ordinary character, 

 and a very beautiful knife [fig. 156] of transparent honey-coloured 

 flint, 2J in. long and |- in. wide at the broadest 

 part. It is flat oq. one face, which has not been 

 retouched after it was struck off from the core, 

 while the other and convex face is most deli- 

 cately flaked, over its whole surface 1 . It is 

 an example of that kind of implement which, 

 when associated with burnt bones, I have 

 always found to be itself unburnt. 



CLXXXVL Between the last -mentioned 

 barrow and the village of Ford, and lower down 

 the slope of the hill, was placed, upon a slight 

 natural elevation, the second of the barrows 

 adverted to above. It was 14ft. in diameter, 

 1J ft. high, and made of earth and stones. 

 Five feet south-east of the centre were two 

 deposits of burnt bones, lying 14 in. apart, and 

 placed upon the natural surface. At the centre, 

 and at the same level as the two former ones, 



Fig. 156. 



was another burnt body, that of a woman about 24 years of age, the 

 remains of which were enclosed in a cinerary urn standing upright. 

 It is very rudely made, in shape like fig. 130, 8J in. high, 7J in. 

 wide at the mouth, and 4 in. at the bottom, with an overhanging 

 rim 2f in. deep, to which the ornamentation, consisting of alternate 

 series of vertical and horizontal lines of impressions of twisted- 

 thong, is confined ; the inside of the lip of the rim has two en- 

 circling lines of the same impressions upon it. Amongst the bones 

 was a piece of calcined flint, and just outside the rim of the urn 

 were four jet beads, three of them of a cylindrical form, respectively 

 l^in., J- in., and fin. long, the fourth shaped like a slightly conical 

 button, almost identical in form with that which is figured at p. 366, 

 though smaller. 



1 A knife almost identical with this was found in an urn with burnt bones in 

 a barrow at Bryn Bugaileii Pawr, in the parish of Llangollen, Denbyshire. It is 

 figured at p. 218 of Arch. Cainbr., vol. xiv. 3rd Series. 



