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short distance of the one last noticed, departed from the rule which 

 characterised the preceding- five sepulchral mounds, and was the 

 first of a series where the greater number of burials were by inhu- 

 mation. It was 56 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. hig-h, and made almost 

 entirely of earth. At the centre was an oval grave, lying east 

 and west, 10 ft. by 8 ft. and 4 ft. deep. On the bottom, at the 

 east end, was the much decayed body apparently of a man, laid 

 on the left side, the head to S.E., and the hands up to the face. 

 Immediately over the bones was a large quantity of charcoal. In 

 the grave, a little higher than the body just mentioned, was part 

 of a human skull, but no other remains of the body to which it 

 had belonged were met with either in the grave or in the mound 

 itself, though it had probably been connected with an interment 

 disturbed in making the grave, or in opening it to place therein 

 a secondary burial. 



LXXXIX. Another barrow of this group proved to be very 

 prolific of interments, and possessed in addition some features of 

 more than ordinary interest. It was 80 ft. in diameter, 4 ft. high, 

 and was composed of earth, with here and there small deposits of 

 chalk in layers. It was evident that the mound had originally 

 been a smaller one, and that upon the surface of this several bodies 

 had been burnt, additional material being afterwards added to cover 

 the interments. This was distinctly shown not only by the dif- 

 ference between the colour of the earth forming the body of the 

 barrow and that of the outer portion, but also by the presence of a 

 dark line, which ran through it at a level of 3 ft. above the natural 

 surface near the centre, and which was due to the remains of char- 

 coal and partially-burnt earth, resulting from the fires made on 

 the surface of the first mound to consume the bodies whose remains, 

 as has already been stated, were found within it. 



At a distance of 15 ft. south-by-east from the centre, and so near 

 to the present surface of the barrow that the plough had disturbed 

 it, were the fragments of a vessel of pottery; this had probably 

 once been associated with an unburnt body, all trace of which had 

 however disappeared. The vessel is somewhat like fig. 69, but 

 has two raised ribs instead of one, and is quite plain ; it is 6^ in. 

 high, 5| in, wide at the mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom. Eighteen 

 and a-half feet south-east-by-south from the centre, and 14 in. below 

 the present surface of tlie barrow, was the spot where a body had 

 been burnt, the remains of which were found in a hollow, 1|^ ft. 



