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the texture of that material being- still apparent upon the oxi- 

 dised metal. The two rivets are severally, and without including 

 the heads, y% in- and jg- in. long, and thus the thiekness of the 

 handle is given. On the bottom of the grave was a quantity of 

 charcoal. 



At the south-west end of the first grave there was an extension, 

 forming a second one, not so deep as the first by a foot. It 

 extended 7 ft. to the south-west, with a width of 4| ft. At the 

 north-east end of it was the body of a man, laid on the left side, 

 with the head to S.E., the right hand being up to the face and 

 the left on the stomach. The body was but slightly contracted, the 

 head being 3^ ft. away from the knees. Behind the back were two 

 jet buttons, placed one upon the other ; they are both plain, and are 

 respectively l|in. and l^in. in diameter, the larger one being more 

 conically shaped than the other. Close to them, on the north, was 

 another ' flint and steel,' almost identical in form and appearance with 

 those found in the preceding grave, but both of the latter showing 

 signs of having been a longer time in use. As in the first instance, 

 the nodule of pyrites was placed upon the flint. On the north side 

 of the grave last described, being also an extension of the first one, 

 in a north-east-by-north direction, was a third grave, a foot less in 

 depth than the second, and consequently not more than 4:^ ft. deep. 

 It was 5 ft. long and 5^ ft. wide, and contained the body of a large 

 and very powerfully made old man, laid on the left side, with the 

 head to N.E. by E., the right hand being upon the head, the left 

 up to the face. In front of the face was placed a bronze knife, 

 which had been fastened to its handle of ox-horn by a single rivet. 

 The metal is a good deal oxidised, and the exact length of the blade 

 cannot be ascertained with certainty, but it has probably been about 

 3|^ in. long ; it is one inch wide where the handle joined the 

 blade, which has terminated with a straight end, and not in the 

 semilunar form. The point of the knife, which is rounded, was 

 turned away from the face of the man. Behind the shoulders was 

 a perforated axe-hammer of micaceous grit, 5^ in. long and 1| in. 

 thick ^ [fig. 126]. The edge, if such a term can be applied to what 

 has a rounded form, was turned away from the body, and the 



^ A similar conjunction of implements has occurred in other places in England. 

 Mr. Batemau found two interments where a perforated axe-hammer and a bronze 

 knife-dagger were associated ; one in Garden Lowe, near Hartington ; Vestiges, p. 63 ; 

 the other at Parcelly Hay, also near Hartington ; Ten Years' Diggings, p. 24. Sir R. 

 Colt Hoare met with the two implements in question in a barrow near Selwood, but 

 there associated with a burial after cremation. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 39, pi. i. 



