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one, viz. that, contrary to the usual Anglian practice, the greater 

 number of the buried persons had been interred in a contracted 

 position, and not at their full length. 



The barrow was 94 ft. in diameter, but only 2 ft. 10 in. high, 

 having, within the recollection of the present occupier of the land, 

 lost some feet of its original height. At a distance of 30 ft. south- 

 by-east from the centre, there was a deposit of burnt bones, those 

 of an adult, laid in a round heap, 13 in. in diameter, upon the 

 natural surfiice of the ground. With the bones was placed a 

 bone pin, also burnt, and perforated with a large eye. At the 

 centre was a grave, of a slightly oval form, sunk into the chalk 

 rock to a depth of 6 ft. The longest diameter, in a direction south- 

 west by north-east, was 6^ ft., the other 6 ft. At a distance of 

 3i ft. above the bottom were the two pelvic bones of a horse ; and 

 at the bottom, about the middle of the grave, were two large flint 

 stones, one foot apart, lying between which was a deposit of the 

 burnt bones of an adult. Twenty-eight feet north-east of the 

 centre, on the natural surface, was found a small polished green- 

 stone axe, 3|^ in. long, and If in. wide at the cutting edge ; and not 

 far from it a fragment of a ' drinking cup,' together with some flint 

 chippings, a round scraper, and a long flake which showed many 

 signs of use along one edge. 



Parish of Laxgtox. Ord. Map. xciii. n.e. 



One of the great wold entrenchments runs across the well-known 

 Langton race-course, in a direction almost due north and south. 

 Just over the crown of the hill it is in a very perfect condition, 

 and consists of four banks and three ditches. 



II. To the north-west of this earth-work, at a distance of about 

 50 yds., is a barrow, the north side of which has been partly 

 removed in order to level that part of the course. The other 

 portion of it had been ploughed over, and very numerous fragments 

 of 'Anglo-Saxon' pottery were strewed about immediately beneath 

 the surface, the remains no doubt of somewhat superficial inter- 

 ments, disturbed by the ordinary processes of cultivation. The 

 barrow was 60 ft. in diameter and 5i ft. high, and formed of oolitic 

 rubble and soil. At the centre, and placed on the natural surface, 

 was the body of a man in the prime of life, laid on the left side, the 



