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handle, and carefully tooled. At 6ft. from top 

 was a floor of rough flat stones, a layer of flints, 

 and a 2nd floor under which, protected by 5 stones, 

 was a skeleton, and a bronze dagger 7 inches long 

 with 3 rivets. A cairn of stones 7ft. Oins. high 

 rested on the solid chalk, and here were found 

 a bone ornament with narrow opening, a 7-sided 

 stone hammer with central hole, a bone needle, 

 and many flint implements. Under the cairn of 

 stones was a kistvaen covered by a stone 5ft. Oin. by 

 4ft. Oin. supported by 6 upright slabs, which formed 

 a chamber 4ft. Oin. by 2ft. Oin. and 2ft. Oin. 

 deep. The sole contents were the decomposed 

 portions of a skeleton. Sept., 1885. 



36. (No. 8 on plan). S.E. of Friar Waddon, and close 



to boundary wall of the down, on South side. Near 

 the top a child's skeleton and a piece of black 

 Roman pottery. At depth of 6ft. an extended 

 skeleton, laid between Portland stones, and near the 

 head a food vessel. At same level another extended 

 skeleton, with food vessel. Three feet below these 

 skeletons, a fine urn 16 inches high, 14ins. diameter, 

 half full of burnt bones, and close to it a small urn 

 4Jins. high. At the ground level, a contracted 

 skeleton which had been protected by large stones, 

 about 2ft. Oins. square and 4ft. thick ; they were 

 in a cist with the remains of a child. A fragment 

 of a saddle quern of Portland chert was found in the 

 barrow. Sept., 1885. 



37. (No. 9 on plan). Used for many cremations, but 



nothing found. August, 1886. 



38. (No. 10 on plan). Near Nos. 7 and 9. Similar to 



No. 9. August, 1886. 



39. (No. 11 on plan). Like the last two, many cremations, 



nothing found. Oct., 1888. 



40. (No. 12 on plan). Bones of a skeleton, and a beaker. 



Oct., 1884. 



