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first sight it seemed as if the original surface-soil had been re- 

 moved entirely, for the lowermost layer of tempered earth rested 

 immediately upon the chalk rock, but I am inclined to think that 

 this condition was caused (as suggested in the preceding note) 

 by the accidental puddling of the old surface-mould during the 

 throwing up of the barrow in wet weather. 



To the south of the centre, and with its edge resting on the 

 inner edge of the trench (which at that point was 27 ft. from the 

 centre) , was a smaller mound, enclosed within the larger. It was 

 placed upon a natural swell of the chalk, and Avas 21 ft. in diameter 

 and 2 ft. high, and made of tempered earth, then chalky and then 

 tempered earth again. Contraiy to expectation there was no burial 

 beneath it ; nor was there anything to indicate why the ordinary 

 process of throwing up the barrow had been deviated from at this 

 point. It must have been made before the larger mound was 

 raised over it, and it might naturally have been expected to cover 

 an interment, but I have met with other instances where a smaller 

 mound within a larger has proved to be equally destitute of a burial 

 beneath it. Just over the trench, but at a height of 3 ft. above 

 its surface, and at a distance of 30 ft. east-south-east from the 

 centre, was the body of probably a man^ laid on the right side, with 

 the head to S.S.W. It was very much decayed, and being not far 

 below the surface of the barrow, it had been partly destroyed, pro- 

 bably in the operation of driving in stakes for sheep-nets. No part 

 of the head was left, with the exception of the lower jaw. The 

 vertebral column, the pelvic bones, and the femurs were lying un- 

 disturbed, but the tibias, &c. were gone. At a point 16 ft. south- 

 east-by-east from the centre, in a hollow 3 ft. in diameter, and de- 

 scending 4 in. below the level of the natural surface, was the body of 

 a very young child, laid on the right side, and with the head to S. 

 Before the face was a small and somewhat rudely made ' drinking 

 cup;' it is in shape like fig. 122, 5|- in. high, 3|- in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2| in. at the bottom. The pattern, which has been 

 made by a notched instrument of bone or wood, consists of four 

 encircling lines in pairs at the top of the cup, having a plain 

 slightly-projecting rib between each pair; below these are tri- 

 angular-shaped figures, 1 in. high, touching each other at the base, 

 and filled in with a reticulated pattern ; then come three encircling 

 lines, then a plain band half-an-inch deep, then five encircling 

 lines, then a zigzag band of two lines, and then four encircling 

 lines at the bottom. Eleven feet and a-half south-east of the 



