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LXXVII. The second barrow was 46 ft. in diameter, If ft. hig-h, 

 and, like the last and the next to be noticed, made of earth. At the 

 centre, upon the natural surface, was the body of a strong-ly-made 

 and very tall man of advanced age, laid on the rig-ht side with 

 the head to N. ; the right hand was at the knees, the left on the 

 hips. The body was only slightly contracted, the distance between 

 the crown of the head and the knees being 4| ft. 



LXXVIII. The last barrow of the group was 45 ft. in diameter 

 and l^ft. high. It contained, like the other two, a single inter- 

 ment, that of a strongly-made man past middle life, who had been 

 laid on the right side in a very shallow grave, with the head to 

 N. The bones were too much decayed to admit of the position 

 of the hands being ascertained. 



LXXIX. About two miles to the north of the group of 

 barrows near Gardham lately described, and situated upon Etton 

 Wold, are four if not more sepulchral mounds, three of which I 

 examined. The first was 60 ft. in diameter, If ft. high, and 

 made of earth with some chalk and flint stones intermixed. At 

 a distance of 14 ft. south-west-by-south from the centre, and laid 

 upon the natural surface, were a few burnt bones of an adult, 

 with some burnt chnlk close to them. At what had no doubt 

 originally been the centre, though now 8^ ft. west-by-south of 

 the present centre, were the remains of a burnt body, placed in 

 a hollow about 2| ft. in diameter, and excavated to a depth of 

 10 in. below the natural surface. The body, probably of a male 

 adult, had been burnt on the spot, and the bones had never 

 been removed from the place where the body had been laid on 

 the wood of the funeral pile, abundant remains of which, in the 

 shape of charcoal, were found beneath the bones. The body had 

 been placed in the usual contracted position, on the right side, 

 with the head to N.E. by E., and behind the hips was found a 

 vessel of pottery, whilst close to the bones of the chest was a 

 small piece of bronze, apparently the remains of a drill or awl, 

 which had been burnt with the body. With the human bones 

 were found the burnt scapula, radius, and ulna of a young pig, 

 probably the remains of food deposited on the funeral pile. It 

 will be remembered that in two of the barrows on Flixton Wold 

 [Nos. Ixx, Ixxi] a similar deposit was met with, thoug*h there 

 the animal bones, as well as those of the buried body, were 



