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the mouth, and 4J in. at the bottom. Through the introduction 

 of this body just above noticed, which must have taken place 

 subsequently to the making of the cutting, the body, probably of a 

 man, already interred within its limits had been in part disturbed. 

 He must have been laid with his head to S.E., and on the left side, 

 and some of the bones still remained in their natural position ; the 

 left femur, with the knee-cap in situ, was there, showing that the 

 hips must have been about the place occupied by the knees of the 

 woman ; the scapula, humerus, " radius, and ulna of the left arm 

 and also the scapula of the right were in position ; the left hand 

 having been placed under the femur, where the bones composing 

 it were still lying. The head must have been near the place where 

 the second bronze drill and the ' drinking cup ' w^ere found, and it 

 is possible that both these articles may have been deposited with 

 the supposed male body; although from the nature of the imple- 

 ment I should be more inclined to connect it with that of the 

 female. Still nearer to the centre of the cutting, just above the 

 level of the natural surface, and resting immediately upon the bed 

 of charcoal mentioned above, was the body of a young woman, from 

 18 to 24 years of age, laid upon the left side, with the head to E., 

 and both hands up to and in front of the chest. Behind the head 

 was a 'drinking cup' [fig. 82], and under the feet a flint knife. 

 The ' cup ' is 6 in. high, 5 in. wide at the mouth, and 3 in. at the 

 bottom. The ornamentation, which is principally made with a 

 notched strip of bone or wood, and partly with a sharp-pointed 

 tool, will be better understood from the figure than from any 

 description. The knife, which has one side curved, is chipped to a 

 very sharp edge on that side; it is 1| in. long and ^ in. wide. 

 All these interments had been made within the limits of the cut- 

 ting, and one of them appears to have been even subsequent to the 

 cutting itself. Amongst the filling-in of the cutting were found, 

 scattered about, the fragments of a ' drinking-cup,' the bones, 

 some entire some broken, of more than one body, and a bone-pin, 

 all of which must be referred to interments which had been dis- 

 turbed in making the cutting. The general character of the orna- 

 mentation upon the fragments of the vessel just named is identical 

 with that of the other ' drinking-cups ' which accompanied the un- 

 disturbed and later interments ; and it is therefore evident that 

 no great length of time had elapsed between the erection of the 

 barrow and the subsequent burials in it ; or else that during the 

 more considerable period of time, if that may be assumed, no 



