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of the rim, which has four lines of thong-impressions running round 

 it. The outside has a herring-bone pattern upon it, made by 

 short thong-impressions, except at the shoulder including the ears, 

 where it has four rows of vesica-shaped vertical markings made by 

 a sharp-pointed tool. The knife, which is of the form of fig. 21, 

 though not so long proportionately, is most beautifully chipped over 

 the whole of its convex surface, and has an edge, produced by very 

 minute flaking, quite as sharp as one of steel. There was a great 

 quantity of charcoal at both the head and feet of the body. 



It will have been remarked that in the barrow described a few 

 pages before a very large number of flint saws were found ; in the 

 barrow now under notice there were no fewer than twenty-four 

 round scrapers. Besides these, there were, together with innumer- 

 able chippings, a long leaf-shaped arrow-point, a javelin-head, a 

 sinMe-winged arrow-point (or whatever that class of flint imple- 

 ment may have been), very much like fig. 340 in Evans's Stone 

 Implements, a knife [fig. 127], several flints of enigmatical purpose, 

 a flat oval piece of fine-grained sandstone, 3 in. 

 in length, which had been used on one face for 

 polishing, and from the appearance probably 

 for polishing metal, and at the ends for ham- 

 mering, together with another flat irregularly- 

 shaped piece of similar stone 2| in. long, in 

 which, on the flat side, a hollow has been 

 wrought, while on the opposite side another 

 hollow has just been commenced. Amongst 

 the material of the barrow were also some 

 sherds of plain dark-coloured pottery and some 

 bones of ox and pig. 



The position of the body, being at full length, 

 in connection with the undoubted antiquity of 

 the interment, is a very unusual one, indeed 

 the only case of the kind, with three exceptions, 

 that I have met with in above three hundred 

 interments which I have examined on the wolds 

 and elsewhere. Rare instances of its occurrence have been noted 

 in different parts of England, where, as in this case, there could 

 be no doubt that the burials were pre-Roman. The ordinary 

 fashion of burial in an extended position was however to some 

 extent deviated from in the present instance, for the hands, 

 instead of being laid at the full lenarth of the arm alono-side the 



Fig. 127. 



