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tte application of the end of a finger nail. Round the body, and 

 especially near the head, was a good deal of charcoal. These three 

 bodies, it should be said, were in a grave, 5^ ft. in diameter, and 

 sunk into the chalk to a depth of 3 J ft. Eight feet south of the 

 centre lay a body, 2 ft. below the ordinary surface level, in a sort of 

 hollow ; either a natural depression in the surface, or one artificially 

 produced. The body, probably that of a woman past middle life, 

 was laid on the right side, with the head to S.W., the right hand 

 under the knees, and the left up to the face. In front of the face 

 was a ^food vessel,' which together with the head was carefully 

 protected by chalk stones arranged round them. The vessel, which 

 is shaped somewhat like fig. 69, is 4f in. high, 4:^ in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom. It is ornamented on the inside of 

 the rim with sloping lines, and on the upper two inches of the out- 

 side with short lines of twisted-thong impressions, arranged in four 

 bands, after a rough herring-bone fashion, and encompassing the 

 vessel. Sixteen feet south-south-west-by-south of the centre was the 

 body of a woman, about 20 years of age, placed in a shallow grave, 

 of not quite 1 ft. in depth. The body was laid on the right side, 

 with the head to S.W., and the hands up to the face. There was a 

 great quantity of charcoal round the body, and especially near the 

 head. At the centre of the barrow was an oval grave, lying east 

 and west, 8 ft. by 6^ ft., and 3 ft. deep. At the eastern end and on 

 the bottom of the grave was the body of a young man, probably 

 under 20 years of age, laid on the left side, the head to E., with 

 the right hand upon the knees, and the left in front of the face. 

 Before the face was a ' food vessel,' approaching in shape to 

 fig. 72. It is 6^ in. high, the same in width at the mouth, and 

 3 in. wide at the bottom. The inside of the rim has two encircling 

 rows of very short lines, arranged roughly chevron-wise ; the 

 upper part of the outside of the vase, for a depth of 1^ in., has 

 four encompassing lines, arranged in pairs three-quarters of an 

 inch apart, of small oval dots. At the west end of the grave was 

 the body of a young man, about 20 years of age, laid on the 

 right side, with the head to N.W., and the hands up to the face. 

 The head of this body was immediately west of the feet of that 

 first described. In front of the knees was a barbed arrow-point 

 of flint. Fifteen feet east-north-east of the centre were laid two 

 bodies facing each other \ They were placed on the level of the 



' Instances have occurred in other places where bodies had been placed in a more or 

 less intimate association such as that in which these were found. In a grave were 



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