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that wliich lies to the north-west of, and nearest to, the long 

 mounds above referred to. It was 66 ft. in diameter, and still, 

 though much worn down by the plough, 4| ft. high ; and was 

 composed of chalk and earth. After cutting away the mound, 

 almost to its whole width, from the south-east side towards the 

 centre, at a distance of 25 ft. from that point the barrow was found 

 to be there made entirely of chalk-rubble, a state of things which 

 continued through a space of 9 ft., when the chalk gave way to a 

 pile of earth. This pile or mound, 16 ft. in diameter, rising gradu- 

 ally from the natural surface of the ground, attained a height of 

 3| ft. at the centre ; the upper and outer part of the barrow itself 

 continuing to be formed of chalk. In consequence of the existence 

 of this inner mound of earth, certain signs of the disturbance of 

 the original barrow, to be more fully referred to afterwards, were 

 plainly perceptible. 



At a distance of 4 ft. south-west of the centre, and at a height 

 of 4 ft. above the surface-level of the ground, was a body, probably 

 that of a woman, laid on the left side, with the head to N.W., the 

 right hand up to the face and the left under the hips. In front 

 of the face was a ' food vessel,' and just in advance of the chest a 

 small bronze awl or pricker. The ' food vessel ' is rudely made, 

 and somewhat in shape like fig. 72, but having two raised ribs. 

 It is 5|^in. high, 6^ in. wide at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bot- 

 tom, and is ornamented over the whole surface with thick loosely- 

 twisted thong-impressions arranged more or less in the form of 

 encompassing lines, the two raised ribs having each short inclining 

 lines upon them ; the inside of the lip of the rim has a series 

 of similarly-formed short vertical lines upon it. The awl is 1|^ in. 

 long, similar to fig. 40, having a flattened tang for insertion 

 into the handle, which is | in. long ; the other end is round, and 

 tapers gradually to a sharp point. Six feet north-east of the 

 centre, and within reach of the plough, were some few remains of 

 the body of a large and powerfully-made man in middle life ; the 

 only parts of the skull which were left being the frontal bone 

 and the right temporal ; the remainder, with many of the other 

 bones of the body, having been destroyed in ploughing. On ap- 

 proaching the centre it was found that a circular cutting, 9 ft. in 

 diameter, had been made into the barrow, coinciding exactly with 

 the outline of the grave, which it was afterwards found had been 

 excavated in the underlying chalk. This cutting, which must 

 have been made subsequently to the first erection of the mound. 



