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LVIII. The first was 66 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, and com- 

 posed of earth and chalk-rubble. Six feet south of the centre and 

 upon the natural surface, was the body of an adult, laid on the 

 left side, and with the head to S., the hands being up to the face. 

 Three feet north of this was a burnt body, also of an adult, the 

 bones being laid in a round heap 10 in. in diameter, placed 8 in. 

 above the natural surface : amongst the bones were two potsherds. 

 Six feet south-east of the centre, and upon the natural surface, was 

 a body, laid on the right side, and with the head to W. It was 

 that of a young person and very much decayed. Nine feet west 



of the centre, and 8 in. above 

 the natural surface, was a second 

 burnt body, also of an adult, the 

 bones being laid in a round heap 

 about 10 in, in diameter. Nearly 

 coincident with the centre was 

 an oval grave, 8| ft. by 6 ft., 

 the long diameter being north- 

 west and south-east, and 3f ft. 

 deep. At the south-east end of 

 the grave on the bottom, was 

 the body of a young man from 

 18 to 24 years of age, laid upon 

 the left side, and with the head 

 to S.E., the hands being up to 

 the face. In front of the face 

 was a perforated axe-hammer of 

 green-stone ^, the edge of which 

 touched the face [fig. 115] ; be- 

 lig. 115. 2- hind the head were two small 



round scrapers of flint, a flint flake, and three shapeless pieces of jet. 

 The axe-hammer is 4|- in. long, and 2^ in. wide at the edge, which 



* I have met wltli a second perforated axe-hammer in connection with the body of 

 a man in a grave at Rudstone [No. Ixviii], where a bronze knife was associated with 

 it. Though not commonly found, they have occun-ed in other parts of England 

 accompanying unburnt bodies. Mr. W. C. Borlase discovered a very beautiful one in 

 a bari'ow at Trevelgue, Cornwall. Nenia Cornubiae, p. 87. In Wiltshire Sir E. Colt 

 Hoare found one, in company with a bronze pin and several bone implements, in a 

 barrow at Upton Lovel. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 76, pi. v ; at Rolstou he discovered 

 a skeleton in a grave, and 'on the right side of the head lay a small black stone 

 hatchet.' I. c, vol. i. p. 174, pi. xx ; at Wilsf ord he found a skeleton with ' a hammer 

 of dark-coloured stone and a brass celt.' 7. c, vol. i. p. 209. Mr. Bateman found 

 in a barrow near Hartington, a skeleton, laid on the cover-stones of a grave, near the 



