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formed by impressions of thin and closely-twisted thong. The 

 inside of the lip has eight encircling lines upon it, whilst the 

 outside has three. Below the lip, for a space of S^ in., the pattern 

 consists of bands of short lines arranged herring-bone fashion, 

 except on the ears, which have each eight parallel vertical lines 

 upon them. The remainder of the vase is covered with short arch- 

 shaped figures, placed rather irregularly, but having a tendency to 

 form encircling bands. 



There is a considerable resemblance between this barrow and one 

 [No. xc] previously described, and that in more than one important 

 particular. Both were of large size, and each contained a single 

 interment at the centre, placed in a shallow depression carried 

 through the surface-soil on to the rock and lined with wood. Each 

 body had a ' food vessel ' deposited in front of it, and each a flint 

 flake intentionally associated with the body. Whether any more 

 than an ordinary connection of burial usages existed between the 

 two mounds it may be rash to assert, still the features are so 

 similar in both as to suggest that there may have been, whether of 

 tribe, family or position, a near relationship of one kind or another 

 between the two men interred in these barrows. 



XCVIII. This barrow was 46 ft. in diameter, 1 ft. high, and 

 made of earth. At the centre was an oval grave, lying west- 

 north-west and east-south-east, 7 ft. by 4^ ft., and 3|- ft. deep. 

 At that side of the grave which was furthest to the west, upon 

 the level of the natural surface of the ground, and at the very 

 edge of the cutting for the grave, was a deposit of burnt bones, 

 those of an adult woman, upon the south side of which, just in 

 contact with them, was a vessel of pottery, having a cover to 

 it [fig. 132]. The vessel is so much decayed that nothing remains 

 beyond the lower part of it ; the cover is complete. On the 

 north-west side of the grave, at the level of the natural surface 

 and just without the limits of the cutting, was a ' food vessel ' 

 [fig. 73]. There were no remains of bones in association with it, but 

 it is possible that it may have been originally placed in connection 

 with an unburnt body deposited within the limits of the cutting. 

 This body may have been disturbed when the grave was made, 

 many bones having been discovered throughout the material which 

 filled it in. On the bottom of the grave and towards the west 

 end of it was found the body of a man above 30 years of age, 

 laid on the left side, the head being to E.S.E., and the hands 



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