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middle of the humerus of the right arm. In front of the face there 

 was a ' food vessel,' while just between it and the face was a most 

 beautiful barbed arrow-point of flint [fig-. 29], which was lying 

 with its point away from the body. It might be surmised from its 

 position, and that of the man's right hand, that the shaft had been 

 held in the hand when he was arranged for his last rest. Close by 

 the arrow-point was part of an ammonite, which, from its worn 

 appearance, may in life have been carried as a charm, and in death 

 deposited, as such, with its owner. This body had been laid between 

 two planks, apparently of willow ; they were each 3^ ft. long, and 

 placed 1|^ ft. apart. There had, however, been no plank either 

 above or beneath the body. In immediate contact with the body 

 was a good deal of charcoal, which indeed was abundant in con- 

 nection with all the interments in this barrow. The ' food vessel ' 

 is somewhat in shape like fig. 71, but wider in proportion to the 

 height, and having five perforated ears at the shoulder. It is 4|- in. 

 high, 6^ in. wide at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom. The 

 inside of the lip of the rim has two pairs of encompassing lines of 

 thong-impressions, the space between the pairs being plain. The 

 edge of the rim has one pair of similar lines, and the shoulder 

 has two pairs, having between them a band of herring-bone 

 pattern, made with a sharp-pointed tool ; the lines forming the 

 pairs are placed close together, and have been made by impressions 

 of twisted-thong. Below the shoulder the vase is plain. 



The grave at the centre of the barrow, of which I now proceed 

 to speak, was oval, east and west in direction, 6^ ft. long by 5^ ft. 

 in width. As in the case of the last preceding barrow, the mound 

 had been cut through, and the cutting was conterminous with the 

 grave, while in the filling-in of the grave itself and of the cutting 

 above it were fragments of a ' drinking cup,' and the broken and 

 disturbed bones of at least two bodies, one being that of a very 

 young child. In the case of this barrow, as also in that of the last 

 one, it was quite evident that the burials in the grave were secondary 

 ones ; and it is also equally impossible in either case to say whether 

 or not a grave had existed at the first formation of the barrow. 

 Judging however from the general nature of the wold barrows, it 

 is almost certain that there had been one, which was possibly 

 enlarged when the time came for depositing the secondary burials. 

 At the centre of the grave, and 3^ ft. below the surface-level, were 

 the remains of the burnt body of an old woman, laid in a round 

 heap, 13 in. in diameter, having the calcined point of a bone pin 



