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motives ^ The three bodies appear to have been, unquestionably, 

 buried together, for there was an entire absence of all those 

 appearances which present themselves when an interment clearly 

 subsequent to the primary one has taken place in a barrow. We 

 shall moreover find instances in other barrows apparently indicating- 

 the same practice as that which may have been followed in this 

 case ; and it is by no means so inconsistent with what we know to 

 have been the custom in ancient days, and yet to prevail in some 

 countries in modern times, as to cause us to hesitate about adopting 

 it on the score of its being an unnatural hypothesis. 



XIV. The second in this group of barrows was not very regular 

 in shape, having been more ploughed down on one side than on the 

 other. It was about 70 ft. in diameter, 2^ ft. high, and was made 

 of earth. At a point 10 ft. south-east from the present centre was 

 a deposit of the burnt bones of an adult, which was no doubt originally 

 the central and primary, as it was the only, burial in the mound. 

 It was laid upon disturbed soil, which constituted the filling-in of 

 what appeared to be a natural depression in the original surface. 

 In the barrow were a few potsherds and a round flint scraper. 



XV. The third barrow, about 100 yds. south-west of the last, was 

 of very slight elevation^ but appeared to have been about 60 ft. in 

 diameter; At the centre, in an irregularly-shaped but to some 

 extent circular hollow, 5 ft. in diameter and Ih ft. deep, was a 

 deposit of burnt bones, placed close to the south-west side of the 

 cavity. The bones were those of a child about 12 years old, 

 together with three fragments of bone belonging to a goat or sheep, 

 also calcined. 



Parish of Gantox. Ord. llap. xcv. s.w. 



XVI. The fourth barrow lay about 50 yds. east of that first 

 described, but was situated upon Potter Brompton Wold. It was 



' Places of sepulture presenting very similar features to this have been met with 

 elsewhere. At Newbigging, near Kirkwall, Orkney, Mr. Petrie found in a cist, below 

 a barrow, two bodies, both apparently males, one, the shorter, in part overlying the 

 other. In front of the knees of the smaller body was a deposit of burnt b( nes, which 

 must have been placed there before the unburnt body was laid in the cist. At Isbister, 

 Orkney, the same explorer found in a cist, beneath a barrow, two bodies, both males. 

 In a second cist, about 5 ft. from the first, was the body of a woman, whose bones 

 seemed to have been partly burnt. A short distance from these two cists was a third. 



