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an earthenware vessel. The four bodies together occupied but a 

 very small space : from hip to hip of the two outside bodies the 

 distance was but 3 ft. 7 in., and between the corresponding heads 

 only 3ift. 



At the centre was a grave, sunk in the chalk, 5 ft. in diameter 

 and 4 ft. deep. Amongst the filling-in of the grave were the 

 scattered remains of a body, which had been disturbed in the 

 process of inserting that which was subsequently found at the 

 bottom. The last-named body was that of a man, between 25 

 and 30 years of age, laid on the left side, with the head to 

 N.AV., the right hand being placed upon the breast^ and the left up 

 to the face. The body was deposited upon a flooring of chalk flags, 

 arranged upon the solid chalk floor of the bottom of the grave, and 

 it had been^ when buried, covered with sods of turf, the decayed 

 remains of which admitted of easy identification ; the rest of the 

 filling-in of the grave consisted of chalk. 



XXXV. The fourth barrow was placed a little to the north of that 

 last named. It was 68 ft. in diameter, 3^ ft. in height, and formed 

 of earth. At the centre was an oval grave sunk in the chalk, 

 running east and west, 6 ft. by 5 ft., and 2^^ ft. deep ; in it, on the 

 bottom, was an adult body very much decayed, lying on the right 

 side, with the head to W. In front of the face was a ' food vessel.' It 

 is of the type of fig. 71, 4|in. high, S^in. wide at the mouth, and 

 2| in. at the bottom, having four pierced ears at the shoulder. It 

 is entirely covered with a pattern formed by impressions of twisted 

 thong. The inside of the rim has four encircling lines upon it, and 

 the vase itself has encircling lines, having between them bands of 

 short inclining lines, with a single zigzag encircling line near to the 

 bottom, below which are five encircling lines. Behind and touching 

 the head were six flints, two of them w^ell worked ; one, possibly a 

 knife, 1| in. long, carefully chipped over the whole of the one face, 

 the other being left as when it was struck off from the core ; 

 another, having also somewhat of the knife form, is of the same length 

 as the first, but not so well flaked ; the others being mere chippings. 

 The grave was filled in with earth, and covered over on the top with 

 very stiff clay, amongst which were many flint chippings, potsherds, 

 and pieces of charcoal. Above this clay were several fragments of 

 a vase, which may have been broken and scattered in rabbit- 

 digging ; certainly there was a rabbit-burrow close to it. Amongst 

 the materials of the barrow, here and there, flint chippings were 



