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earth, with some admixture of chalk and flint. At a distance of 

 16 ft. south-east-by-east from the centre, and one foot above the 

 natural surface, was the bod}^ of a woman, about the middle period 

 of life, laid on the right side, with the head to N.E. by N., the 

 right hand between the upper part of the thighs, the left up to the 

 face. Close to the bones of the pelvis was a urinary calculus of 

 the ordinary description, about the size and shape of a horse-bean. 

 Upon the left temporal bone, v/hieh was stained by the contact, 

 was the much oxidised remnant of a bronze awl or pricker, of which 

 the sharp end, | in. in length, is left. At the centre was a shallow 

 grave, sunk through the surface-soil for a depth of 8 in. on to the 

 chalk rock; it had a direction east and west, and was 7f ft. long 

 and 2 ft. wide. It was lined throughout with wood, and the body 

 deposited therein had also been covered over with wood. There 

 had been nothing' like a coffin, either made out of a hollowed tree 

 trunk or constructed of wooden boards, but thin slabs had ap- 

 parently been placed, without being joined together, underneath 

 and above the body. The body, which was laid on the left side at 

 the middle of the grave, was that of a man in or a little past the 

 middle period of life; the head was to W. and the hands up to 

 the face, the fingers extending underneath the head. In front of 

 the face was a ' food vessel,' still containing a dark-coloured deposit, 

 of vegetable origin, probably the remains of food. The vase, like 

 fig. 70 but with three unpierced ears, is a very beautifully made 

 specimen of this class of vessel, 4^ in. high, 5^ in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 2f in. at the bottom, which has upon it a central boss 

 1 in. in diameter, with a hollow | in. wide between it and the 

 edge. The inside of the lip of the rim is ornamented with two 

 encircling rows of dotted impressions, separated from each other, 

 and each bordered by two lines closely applied of very fine cord- 

 markings, so placed as to give them a feathered appearance. The 

 outside of the lip has a band of short vertical cord-impressions 

 bordered by a single line of the same. Below this, for a space 

 of 1 in., the vase is covered (except the ears which have vertical 

 lines upon them) with closely applied encircling lines of fine cord- 

 markings ; then come seven bands of short lines slightly in- 

 clining, each band in reversed order, and separated, except the 

 last one, from each other by an encircling line of cord-impression ; 

 then for nearly half an inch the vase is plain ; and below, at 

 the bottom, is a band of short lines inclining to the right. The 

 resemblance between this and the similar vessel found in the 



