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crossed in a peculiar manner, rig-lit to left and left to rig-ht, the feet 

 being- bent back under the hips, a position which might result if the 

 body had been buried in a sitting posture. That it had not been 

 so buried, however, the position of the rest of the body, clearly laid 

 on its side, sufficiently proved. The arms were too much decayed 

 to permit it to be seen how they had been arranged. A second 

 body, also that of a man, past the middle period of life and of great 

 streno-th, was laid on the right side, with the knees close to the 

 head of the first, the head being to N.W., the right hand in front 

 of the chest, the left under the head. Both the thigh bones had 

 been broken during life, and were re-united. Behind the head was 

 a plain vase, which had almost gone back to its original cla3^ A 

 third body, that of a strongly-made young man, about 25 years of age, 

 was laid on the right side, the head to N.E., the lower part of the 

 back touching the vase just mentioned ; the right hand was up to 

 the face, the left under the head. Laid across the feet of the second 

 body was the neck of a fourth ; this, a strongly-made man in the 

 middle period of life, was laid on the left side, with the head to 

 N.W., the hands in front of the chest, and clasping each other, the 

 right over the left. This body lay about 7 ft. to the south of the 

 centre, and its legs were cut away by the introduction of a body 

 which I shall proceed to notice immediately. To the east of the 

 fourth body were numbers of broken human bones, parts of skulls 

 (amongst them that of a child), all of them the remains of bodies 

 most probably disturbed by the secondary central interment ; whilst 

 due to the same act of disturbance, was the fragmentary condition 

 of a body, the head of which, with a few of the cervical vertebrie in 

 position, was found 9 ft. south of the centre, and laid upon the 

 natural surface. The skull (that of a man past the middle period of 

 life) was placed on its left side. Four feet south-east-by-south of 

 the centre was the body of a man, the introduction of which had no 

 doubt caused the disturbance above mentioned. It was laid on the 

 right side, with the head to E., but the bones of the arms wei-e too 

 much decayed to allow their position to be inferred. Close to, and 

 in some cases touching, this body were numerous remains of human 

 bones belonging to several disturbed bodies. In front of the chest 

 were a rubbing-stone of oolitic sandstone, of a texture not unlike 

 pumice, a flint saw, two ordinary flakes, one a long and well- 

 formed one, having the edge along the whole of one side worn 

 smooth by use, and a flat nodule of flint, from which flakes had 

 been struck ofl", but which seems to have been afterwards used as 



