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the occupants of this barrow vary very considerably; but it is re- 

 markable that when we make allowances for sexual differences, 

 such as smaller size, and specially, lesser height, and such as the 

 lesser obliquity of the forehead and the parieto-occipital region, this 

 skull is remarkably like the one already spoken of as No. 1. 



In the immediate neighbourhood of the undisturbed skeleton 

 (No. 3), so near indeed as to have got partly intermingled with it, 

 four skeletons were found, more or less numerously represented by 

 bones of the trunk and limbs, and comprising two tolerably perfect 

 dolicho-cephalic male calvarise, labelled ' 4 a ' and '45,' each of 

 which is water-worn on both sides, showing that when disturbed 

 it was not replaced on the same side which it had previously laid 

 upon, and between which a strong resemblance subsists, suggesting 

 that they may have belonged to near relatives. The greater part 

 of the bones were reported to me as having had over them ' one 

 of the sloping stones at the back of No. 3,' mentioned above, and 

 No. 4 was simply spoken of as ' lying under No. 3.' I had myself 

 the advantage of examining this collection of bones nearly as they 

 had been left when the skeleton ' No. 3 ' was put into the grave ; 

 and from the way in which these bones, which I removed myself, 

 were arranged, it was clear to me that though they had been taken 

 up and replaced without any knowledge of the anatomical relation 

 of, at least, the long bones, a good deal of care and painstaking 

 had been bestowed upon their rearrangement. The skulls lay apart 

 from the lower jaws, and were in relation to other bones which 

 they do not normally touch, and in many cases the long bones had 

 their proximal and distal ends occupying the reverse of their 

 natural allocation. But, mal-arranged as they were, it was still 

 plain that they had been deliberately taken up, and as deliberately 

 laid down again in the positions in which we found them. The 

 peculiar physical, and more or less mutually antagonistic, condition 

 to which the bones had been exposed in this barrow are well repre- 

 sented in this particular collection of bones. In some cases these 

 bones were seen to have suffered very much from water wear, to 

 such an extent in some cases as to render it almost impossible to 

 identify the bones affected ; but in some of the long bones, whilst 

 one segment of the bone might be almost eaten or entirely eaten 

 through, another segment was to be seen retaining, where it had 

 been protected by an overlying slab, its outlines and even its texture 

 unimpaired and unaltered. By noting this curious combination 

 of decay and immunity from decay, we are prevented from laying 



