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continued would be the manner of burial. We may therefore in 

 this barrow have the burial-place of a family of the earlier long- 

 headed race, the kindred of those who interred their dead in the 

 adjoining long barrow, living side by side with the intruders, 

 and still keeping up their own mode of burial. As has already 

 been stated, it appears probable that a similarly constructed chamber 

 existed in the long barrow just referred- to ; and if this was so, we 

 have the fact of one round barrow, closely in connection with others 

 which contained burials after the ordinary round barrow fashion, 

 possessing a feature strictly analogous to one discovered in what 

 must be regarded as a long barrow of the ordinary kind. 



CCXVIII. Closely adjoining the mound just above described, 

 the two in fact overlapping, the one the other (though which 

 had been first thrown up it was impossible to say), was a barrow 

 36ft. in diameter and 4ft. high. It was made of stone on the 

 exterior, and had an earthen mound within it 13ft. in diameter 

 and 3| ft. high. At a distance of lOf ft. west-north-west of the 

 centre, and 6 in. above the surface-level, was the burnt body of 

 an adult, probably a female ; the bones were enclosed by small 

 flag-stones, carefully placed amongst the general mass of stones 

 of which the barrow at this part was composed. At the centre 

 was the burnt body of a young person under 17 years of age, 

 of uncertain sex ; it had been burnt on the spot, and the signs 

 of fire in the reddened earth extended over a space of 8ft. in 

 diameter. The bones were deposited in a circular hole 1 ft. wide 

 and 16 in. deep, which had been made after the burning of the 

 body had taken place, a circumstance contrary to the usual mode, 

 which was, when the bones were deposited on the site of the 

 mtrinum, to prepare the hole in which the bones were afterwards 

 to be placed before the burning of the body was effected. Amongst 

 the bones was a pin 3J in. long, made from the leg-bone of a goat 

 or sheep ; it was calcined, and had probably fastened the dress 

 or shroud in which the corpse was wrapped. Several ox bones 

 were found amongst the material of the mound. 



CCXIX. The next barrow, which was in contact with the last 

 and to the north-east of it, was 34 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, and 

 composed entirely of stones, arranged carefully from the centre. 

 At that point, scattered widely over a space of 2ft. in diameter 

 and placed on the natural surface, were the burnt bones, very 



