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the wold, taken advantage of and artificially enlarged to a slight 

 extent. In its present form it is an oval mound, with a north and 

 south direction, about 90 ft. by 74 ft. At the centre the chalk 

 rock rises to the surface, and it did not seem as if any addition had 

 ever been made at that point. Eighteen feet west-south-west 

 from this assumed centre was an adult body, laid on the left side, 

 upon the natural surface, with the head to S.E., and the hands 

 crossed over each other at the waist. Below the head was a 

 chipping of flint. In contact with this body and lying in front of 

 its face and chest was the burnt body of an adult, some of the bones 

 of which were lying under the arms of the unburnt one. It thus 

 became evident that the unburnt body must have been deposited 

 in point of succession after the burnt body, and not less evident was 

 it, from the general appearance of the bones of each body, that both 

 had been buried on the same occasion. The added soil above these 

 bodies did not exceed a foot in actual thickness ; but they may 

 originally have been further from the surface, as some of the soil 

 would naturally be removed by the action of the plough. In the 

 mound were some broken bones of an adult ox, some of them gnawed, 

 most probably by dogs ; several flint chippings, and a long and 

 rather irregularly formed flint scraper, the edge of which was 

 somewhat smoothened by use. 



XI. The barrow now about to be described seems to have been 

 partly ploughed out of its original position, down the sharp slope of 

 the hill upon the extreme verge of which it is placed. It was 40 ft. in 

 diameter and 1^ ft. high, and was made of chalk rubble. At a distance 

 of 14ft. east-north-east of the present centre was the head of a young 

 child, none of the other bones of the body being present; whilst imme- 

 diately under it, and resting upon the rock, were the burnt remains 

 of another child. In contact with the latter was a ' food vessel,' in 

 shape like fig. 69, lying on its side, with the mouth to the 

 east, and close to the child's head. It is 6J in. high, 6^ in. wide at 

 the mouth, and Sin. at the bottom, where it slightly widens. The 

 inside of the lip of the rim has three and the outside two encircling 

 lines ; below these are two zigzag encircling lines, and below these 

 again two other encircling lines of semicircular markings, forming 

 two rows of arches ; all the impressions having been made by the 

 application of a twisted thong. The remainder of the vase for a 

 depth of 4^ in, is quite plain. It is impossible to say with which 

 of the two burials this vessel was associated, as it was in like 



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