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several bodies. This circumstance will of itself account for the 

 disturbed condition of some of the deposits of bones which were met 

 with. At a distance of 58 ft. east-north-east from the centre, and 

 12 ft. south of the mesial line, was the body of an aged man, laid 

 on the left side, about 1 ft. above the natural surface ; the head 

 was to W., the hands touching the knees, the back being straight, 

 but the knees drawn up towards the chin. The bones were placed 

 upon a layer of soil about 2 in. thick, which again was laid upon 

 chalk slabs ; under them was the skeleton of probably another man, 

 past the middle period of life, which rested on the natural surface. 

 It was placed on the right side, with the head to W.S.W., and the 

 hands up to the face. Fifty-three feet north-east by east from the 

 centre, and on the mesial line, at about 1 J ft. above the natural 

 surface, were several fragments of a plain vessel of dark-coloured 

 pottery, shallow and very wide, and apparently having been round- 

 bottomed. The shape is most unusual, but unfortunately so large 

 a portion is wanting, that the exact form cannot with certainty be 

 made out. Two feet due west of the remains of this vessel was a 

 body which had been partly disturbed. Four of the lumbar ver- 

 tebra were in position, and lying on the natural surface ; the other 

 bones were found at different levels, almost up to the surface of the 

 barrow ; some few burnt bones were mingled amongst them. About 

 1 J ft. north of this body, and 9 in. above the natural surface, was 

 a deposit of burnt bones. I think it is not improbable that in the 

 disturbed unburnt body we have the interment in connection with 

 which the peculiar-shaped vessel was deposited, and that it had 

 been displaced in the process of putting in the burnt body; whilst 

 both of them had latterly been more or less scattered during the 

 operation of stubbing up the trees. Fifty-two feet and a-half east- 

 by-north from the centre, and 16 ft. south of the mesial line, was the 

 body of an aged female, from 60 to 70 years of age, laid on the 

 right side, about 9 in. above the natural surface. The back was 

 straight, but the knees were drawn up, the head being to W., the 

 arms crossed over the chest, and the fingers under the humerus of 

 each respective arm. In front of the face, and touching the teeth, 

 was a very neatly-made oval flint scraper or knife, If in. long and 

 J- in. wide. Thirty-five feet north-east by east of the centre, and on 

 the mesial line, 6 in. above the natural surface, was the body of a 

 young person, apparently partly disturbed ; the head, lying to E., 

 did not appear to have ever been moved. Thirty-one feet and a-half 

 north-east by east of the centre, and one foot south of the mesial 



