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grave, to a depth of nine inches below the head and hips. There 

 were remains of wood underneath but not above the body. About 

 six inches north of the head of the last-described body, but at a 

 little higher level, was the skull of the disturbed body of a woman, 

 in or beyond the middle period of life, some of whose other bones, 

 consisting of a femur, tibia, fibula, the pelvic bones, and two humeri, 

 were laid alongside each other, 7 ft. apart from the skull, and at 

 the south side of the grave. At the west end of the grave was the 

 body of a strongly-made old man, laid on the left side, with the 

 head to S.E. by S., the hands being crossed over each other and 

 placed on the hips. The knees rested on the edge of the grave, and 

 the upper part of the body had sunk nearly a foot below them, 

 in consequence of the settling of the materials with which the 

 grave was filled, as in the case of the body just above noticed. 

 To the same cause was probably due a dislocation of the radius 

 of the left arm, which crossed the corresponding ulna at an angle 

 of about 45°. This body, like the last, had been laid upon wood. 

 Many of the bones were much affected by exostosis, and three of 

 the dorsal vertebrse were glued together in consequence. On the 

 bottom of the grave, and placed about the middle of it, was the 

 body of a strongly-made man past the middle period of life, laid 

 on the left side, with the head to E. by S. ; the right hand was 

 on the stomach, but the left was too much decayed to allow of its 

 position being determined. The head, on the decomposition of the 

 flesh and ligaments, had been pressed six inches back from the lower 

 jaw, which still occupied its proper relative position. There were 

 appearances as if the south end of the grave had been laid with 

 wood. In the grave were several bones belonging to the right 

 foreleg of a goat or sheep, and a tooth of the same animal ; amongst 

 the material of the barrow were some bones of ox. 



CXIV. This barrow was .58 ft. in diameter, 2| ft. high, and made 

 of earth and chalk. Just below the surface of the mound at the 

 centre was a eineraiy urn reversed, the bottom of which had been 

 destroyed by the plough ; it contained the burnt bones of an adult 

 of small size. The rim, which is overhanging and 2^ in. deep, has 

 been ornamented on both the outside and inside with a pattern 

 consisting of alternate series of vertical and horizontal lines of 

 twisted-thong impressions; this pattern covers the whole of the 

 outside of the rim, and extends for above an inch lower on the 

 inside. About 4 ft. south of the urn, and placed on the level of the 



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