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impressions encompassing* it. A plain raised rib encircles the vase 

 at the mouth, and If in. below it is another. Between the ribs, and 

 touching the lower side of one and the upper side of the other, are 

 encompassing lines, having between them a zigzag line 1 in. deep ; 

 and below the second rib is another zigzag line similar to the first 

 but not so deep ; all the impressions are those of twisted-thong. 



CXX. The third barrow was so much levelled by the plough, and 

 had probably been at first so low in elevation, that it is impossible 

 to say what its width and height may have been. Like the two 

 mounds on the race-course, it had apparently been covered over with 

 blocks of flint, for many of them were scattered about on the surface 

 of the ground where the barrow had been placed. Within the 

 limits of the mound, and representing no doubt the original 

 centre, was a large grave, lying north-east and south-west, 7-4 ft. 

 long, 5 ft. wide, and 6 ft. deep. It was entirely filled in for a depth 

 of 1|^ ft. from the top with blocks of flint, and below them with chalk- 

 rubble and some little earth. Amongst the flints was a considerable 

 portion of a human skull, broken but the pieces lying together," 

 belonging to probably a male past the middle period of life. On 

 the bottom of the grave at the middle was the body of an aged 

 and strongly-made man, laid on the left side, the head to E.N.E., 

 the hands being up to the face. In front of and touching the 

 arms were some burnt bones belonging to a young man. Large 

 flint blocks were placed in front of the body and behind the head 

 and shoulders. In the grave were some of the basi-cranial bones of 

 an ox, and a broken piece off" the point of the tine of a red-deer's 

 antler, probably part of a pick used in excavating the grave ; 

 similar instances have occurred elsewhere in the wold barrows, 



CXXI. This barrow, to which the name of Money Hill is 

 attached, was situated at a little distance to the south-east of the 

 main body of the group of barrows, many of which have been just 

 described, and upon the highest part of the ridge. The name is 

 not, as might be supposed, derived from a fancied belief that a 

 treasure was contained in it, but from the fact that forming a 

 conspicuous object on the boundary line of two estates, when the 

 boundaries were being perambulated money was scrambled for at 

 the spot, in order to impress the better upon the memory of the 

 persons assembled the limits of the manor. A less pleasant mode 

 of fixing such a fact upon the recollection of the children who were 



