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10 in. long at the top and 5 ft. 10 in. at the bottom, and being 1 3 ft. 

 10 in. wide at the bottom, it gradually sloped upwards towards the 

 west until, at a distance of 9f ft. from its eastern side, it rose to the 

 level of the natural surface of the ground. A somewhat similar 

 trench or hollow was discovered in the barrows at Kudstone, Westow, 

 Wass, and Crosby Garrett. It was filled with burnt chalk, charcoal, 

 and black sooty matter, and on the bottom was found a piece of 

 plain, dark-coloured pottery, the paste of which was full of broken 

 stone. At the point where the trench rose to the level of the 

 natural surface (9^ ft. from the east end) the mesial deposit had a 

 width of 7-J ft., caused by an extension towards the north, and here 

 were found the bones of an adult and of a child. The skulls of 

 another adult and child and some ox bones were met with 2f ft. 

 further to the west. At a distance of 16| ft. from the east end 

 a trench, 4| ft. long and 2J ft. wide, had been made transversely 

 to the mesial deposit (there 5 ft. wide) and sunk to a depth of 1 J ft. 

 below it. In the trench, amongst burnt earth and charcoal, were 

 the bones of a young person, whilst immediately above it, amongst 

 the chalk-rubble, were the bones of an adult woman. Three and 

 one-quarter feet west of this, where the burnt part of the mesial 

 deposit was only 2f ft. wide, were the bones of an adult man. 

 Immediately west of this the deposit widened to 6J ft. by an 

 extension towards the north. Twenty-one feet from the east end 

 were the bones of three adults, one of them having all the bones 

 present and in their proper order, and close to them, to the west, 

 were the remains of four bodies. Nine feet further to the west 

 were the bones of an adult woman. Just west of this body was 

 another transverse trench, 3 ft. 10 in. long, 1 ft. 7 in. wide, and 

 l^ft. deep, and in it were the skull and lower jaw of a child, 

 together with a single piece of plain pottery. Immediately over 

 this the chalk stones had a cist-like form, and underneath them were 

 a human jaw and some ox bones. Thirty-two feet from the east 

 end was still another transverse trench, 3J ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 

 sunk 3J ft. below the surface. In it, amongst the burnt chalk and 

 charcoal, were the remains of two adults, one of which seemed to 

 have been a complete body when it had been interred, apparently in 

 a sitting posture. There were also found in the trench bones of red 

 deer, ox, and goat, three pieces of plain pottery, one a portion of the 

 rim of a dark-coloured and probably round-bottomed vessel, the 

 other two of a reddish colour. Close to, but not in, the trench was 

 a single piece of brown-coloured, thong-marked pottery, precisely 



