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a circular hollow, 3| ft. in diameter, and about 9 in. deep, made in 

 an artificial mound, which had been in existence before the barrow 

 was raised ; the summit of this mound being 3 ft. above the level of 

 the natural surface. In the hollow was the body of a very large 

 adult man, with delicately-made teeth ; it had been burned, though 

 not to such an extent but that all the bones and their position 

 could be recognised without the least difficulty ; they were all still 

 in their proper places, having evidently never been moved since 

 the application of fire to the corpse ^. The body was laid on the 

 right side, the head to S.W., and the hands up to the face, in front 

 of which was an urn standing upright. On the bottom of the 



Fig. 130. i. 

 hollow, below the bones, was a great quantity of charcoal, and the 

 earth all round the hollow was much reddened by the action of fire. 

 The urn [fig. 130] is of the cinerary type, with an overhanging 



^ It will be remembered tbat in the barrow ou Ettou Wold [No. Ixxix] a body was 

 found in a similar condition to this. The same feature has occurred in Derbyshire, 

 where in a baiTow at Dale, near Stanton, Mr. Bateman says there ' lay two skeletons 

 in a line, one at the feet of the other, which presented a mode of sepulture different 

 from any yet found in oiir researches, from having been intentionally subjected to the 

 action of fire upon the spot, in such a manner as to preserve the bones in their natural 

 order, entire and unwarped by the heat. They were surrounded by charcoal and earth, 

 to which a red colour had been imparted by the operation. . . . All deposits of burnt 

 bones previously found by us have been strictly calcined . . . and have generally been 

 gathered into a heap, or placed within an urn ; so that here we find an exception to 

 the general rule perfectly inexplicable.' Ten Years' Diggings, p. 125. It is un- 

 fortunate that Mr. Bateman does not record the position of the bones, and it is there- 

 fore impossible to say whether the bodies, like that described in the text, had been 

 placed on the funeral pile in the usual contracted form. 



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