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bones, adult and young. Amongst the bones from this part of the 

 barrow was one fragment of burnt bone, possibly human, as well 

 as some teeth of ox and horse. These teeth, as also the human 

 temporals, were stained by the manganic oxide. These appear- 

 ances were difficult of interpretation until we came upon the ruins 

 of a " chamber/' about 6 ft. or so further to the north-west, the 

 destruction of which, and the scattering the contents of which, 

 may explain the blackening of the central strip of the barrow ob- 

 served here, as also the presence of the human bones. The single 

 burnt bone, whether human or not, may have been an accidental 

 importation. Some adult teeth of dos, from the south side of the 

 barrow, found together, are beautifully coloured by the manganic 

 oxide. A piece of the parietal of a human subject, beyond the 

 period of childhood at least, was found at the bottom, to the 

 south of the middle line, under the slaty, slantingly-arranged 

 rubble, not under the central deposit, at a point about 27 ft. from 

 the centre point of the eastward end. On a level with it, as re- 

 gards the longer axis of the barrow, but close to its northern wall, 

 we came upon a stone, 4 ft. 9 in. long, 3 ft. 2 in. high, placed on 

 its edge, and sunk some way into the natural soil. It had its long 

 axis at right-angles to that of the barrow, the wall of which, as 

 afterwards discovered, formed a passage, 4 ft. 2 in. wide, leading 

 down to it. Another large stone, 2 ft. 10 in. long, 3 ft. 3 in. high, 

 also standing on its edge, abutted on the inner end of the first 

 stone, and projected in a south-westerly direction into the barrow ; 

 and two other large stones were lying flat near the upright ones 1 . 



' On this day (Sept. 28) the Rev. David E/oyce came upon the 

 boundary- wall, which had two prolongations inwards, to meet the 

 chamber represented by the large stones mentioned above, and 

 formed thus a passage 4 ft. 2 in. wide .... At a distance of 46 ft. 

 from the apex of the re-entering angle, in the centre of the east 

 end, we found the skeleton of a child, of about five or six years of 

 age, lying just outside the boundary- wall, on the south side of the 

 barrow. The child had been buried in the contracted position, and 

 had been laid on the right side, with one hand at its face and the 

 other upon its hip. The teeth have the same purplish blackening, 



1 I insert the substance of a note I made at the time to the effect that there were 

 four stones, from 2 ft. by 1 ft. 10 in. to 1 ft. 8 in. by 1 ft. 4 in. (one of them overlying 

 another), placed on the surface of the ground, and a fifth, rather larger, 2 ft. above 

 the surface, all close to the two upright stones; and that these were the remains 

 of a chamber, 8ft. long, 2ft, 8 in. wide, and 2^ ft. deep, and nagged on the bottom. 

 (W.G.) 



