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stance that it was formed in a different way from the rest of the 

 mound — being made entirely of earth — it is not improbable that it 

 was an addition made to the west end of an already existing pile ^ . 

 If this bm-ial were not the primary one, then no interment which 

 can be regarded as such was discovered. It does not however seem 

 probable that all these large accumulations of earth and chalk, 

 extending in different directions, were merely adjuncts to the 

 memorial of a single burial, and that occupying a position like the 

 one in question. At the same time it may be stated that in many 

 of the long barrows, and indeed in some of the round ones, that 

 part which is devoted to the immediate place of sepulture bears a 

 very small proportion to the mound itself. I can however offer no 

 explanation which bears the semblance of probability, and I must 

 leave it to the ingenuity of the reader to form his own conclusion 

 as to the object of this collection of material, which must have re- 

 quired the continued labour of a large number of people over a 

 considerable period of time. In conclusion I would observe that 

 the examination was so thoroughly exhaustive that there cannot 

 be any hesitation whatever in saying that no burial-place has 

 remained undiscovered beneath the mounds. 



LXVII. The next barrow, the largest of the group, lay about 

 half a mile to the north-east of the long mounds just described. It 

 was 100 ft. in diameter and 9 ft. high, and was formed entirely of 

 chalk, with the exception of a layer of dark fatty earth which rested 

 on the natural surface, and was of a thickness varying between 1 ft. 

 and 2-j ft. There was no trace of any hollow in the neighbourhood 

 from whence so large a mass of chalk could have been obtained as 

 that required to form this barrow. The chalk employed must 

 however have been quarried from a considerable depth, for the 

 material over a great part of the mound was of a description that 

 does not occur in the upper chalk beds of the locality. There can 

 be but little doubt that it was obtained close by, and it would 

 therefore seem as if the place from which it had been obtained had 

 been afterwards filled up again. There is no difficulty in under- 

 standing how the chalk was excavated, for the remains of the tools 

 were found amongst the material composing the barrow, in the 

 shape of broken tines of red-deer antlers and splinters originating 

 in their breakage. In a grave underneath a barrow about three 



' Upon a long tarrow, in the same parish, there was placed at the west end a very- 

 similar mound, under which was found a body with a 'food vessel.' 



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