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centre, and 1 ft. above the surface-level, was the body of a woman 

 in the middle period of life, lying on the rig-ht side, with the head 

 to N.E. by E. ; the right hand was up to the face, the left extended 

 to the knees and having the fingers doubled in ; behind the head 

 was a bone pin, 2^ in. long. A few inches higher than this body, and 

 over it, was part of the lower jaw of a child. Above the body was 

 a layer of chalk 14 in. thick, which indeed extended throughout 

 the barrow within the limits of the trench at this part. Six feet 

 south-south-east of the centre, and 16 in. above the surface, laid in 

 a circular hollow cut through the layer of chalk just above men- 

 tioned, and resting on the tempered earth beneath, was the body 

 of probably an aged woman, laid on the left side, and with the head 

 to E.S.E., the right hand, having the fingers doubled in, being 

 between the face and the knees, and the left hand towards the hips. 

 Almost precisely between this last body and that of the first- 

 mentioned woman, at a point 7^ ft. south -east- by -east from 

 the centre, and at a height of 1 ft. 8 in. above the surface, was 

 another body, that of a young person, laid on the right side, the 

 head to S. by W., the hands up to the face. Four feet south of 

 the centre, and placed at the surface-level, was the body of a man 

 about 55 years of age, laid on the left side, with the head to 

 S.E. by S., the right hand being to the knees and the left up to the 

 face. Three inches higher than this body, and 1 ft. to the east 

 of its head but probably having no immediate connection with it, 

 was an oval tool-stone [fig. 16], with a perforated hole at the 

 centre, which has been drilled from each side. It is 2^ in. by 2 in. 

 and 1^ in. thick, the perforation widening from ^ in. at the middle 

 part to I in. at each surface. Directly over the last body, and 1 ft. 

 higher than it, was another body, that of a child in the period of the 

 first dentition, laid on the left side, with the head to N. It was too 

 much decayed to allow of the position of the hands being noted. Four 

 feet east of a central grave, of which I am about to speak, and 2^ ft. 

 above the surface-level, were a human radius and some portions of a 

 'drinking cup ;' they were lying almost immediately above the body 

 of a man, past the middle period of life, placed on the natural surface, 

 and on the right side, with the head to N.N.W., and the hands in 

 front of the knees. On the east side, and within the compass of 

 the grave, but at a height of 6 in. above the level of the natural 

 surface, was the body of a man about 55 years of age, laid on the 

 right side, with the head to W., the right hand being under the 

 head, and the left, the fingers of which were doubled in, up to the 



