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wide and 14 in. deep, excavated in the earlier mound already men- 

 tioned. The bones were those of an adult of uncertain sex, and 

 amongst them was a piece of calcined flint, showing signs of work 

 upon the edge. The hollow had been made, as in the case presently 

 to be noticed, before the body was burnt, and the bones after 

 cremation had been gathered together from the funeral pile and 

 placed within it. The way in which the burning had been effected 

 was evidenced by the deep red colour, gradually chaiiging into black, 

 with which the inside of the hollow was tinged, the colour extend- 

 ing to the earth around it for a space of al^out 4 ft. in diameter. 

 Amongst the bones, and near the middle of the deposit, was a small 

 vessel of pottery [fig. 131]. It is difiicult to say to what class this 



Fig. 131. i. 



vase is to be attributed, for though it possesses somewhat of the 

 appearance of an ' incense cup,' it has much in common with the 

 ' food vessel.' In others of this group it will have been observed 

 that anomalous forms of sepulchral vessels were met with, and speci- 

 mens resembling the cinerary urn, in form though not in size^ were 

 found associated with burials after cremation, but not containing 

 any of the bones ; and in this barrow a small urn of the cinerary 

 type accompanied an unburnt body. The vase is 1^ in. high, 2^ in. 

 wide at the mouth, and If in. at the bottom. The ornamentation 

 is due to the impression of twisted-thong. At the same distance 

 from the centre, but south-south-west of it, and at the same level as 

 the burnt body just described, was a second one, that of a person, 

 probably a female, of small size, under 25 years of age. The bones 

 were placed in a hollow, 1 ft. 8 in. in diameter, and sunk to a depth 



