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CXLV. The first one was 47 ft. in diameter, 2 ft. high, and was 

 composed of sand. It was placed upon a natural rise of the 

 ground, and had lost some of its original height by having been for 

 a long time under cultivation. Fifteen feet south of the centre was 

 a cinerary urn set upright and resting on the natural surface ; the 

 upper part of it had been entirely destroyed by the plough. What 

 remained of it was filled with a deposit of burnt bones, those 

 of a person about the time of puberty ; amongst which were 

 found a barbed arrow-point of flint calcined [fig. 140] ; a flint 



Fig. 140. -1. Fig. 141. a. 



scraper, oval-shaped and thin, unburnt ; a calcined bone pin [fig. 

 141] l|in. long, with a large eye at the head ^ in. in diameter; 

 and a bone fibula calcined [fig*. 7]. This curious dress-fastener, 

 for such no doubt it is, has been very ingeniously made from 

 the articulating end of a small animal bone, and, as will be seen 

 from the engraving, is neatly formed^. About lift, south-east 



* Similar fibulae liave been found, though rarely, elsewhere. One was discovered, 

 itself calcined, with a burnt body in a barrow on Melmerby Common, North Riding, 

 by the Rev. W. C. Lukis. A second one, also calcined, now in the collection of 

 Mr. Dotchon, Whitby, was found in a previously disturbed barrow near Robin Hood's 

 Bay, North Riding; there were burnt bones and a single cylindrical jet bead close by 

 it, and it had probably accompanied them. These articles have occurred in Wilts ; in 

 a barrow previously disturbed Sir R. Colt Hoare found ' a piece of ivory resembling 

 the handle of a cup ;' it was in a grave, but it is not stated whether the burial was 

 after cremation or not. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 200. pi. xxiv. He records the finding 

 of another in a grave with a burnt body, where were ' two articles in high preservation. 

 The one resembles in shape a small lance-head, the other is like the handle of a cup. 

 The latter is the third article of the sort we have discovered.' I. c, p. 200. pi. xxiv. 

 From the engraving, the second article appears to be identical in shape with that 

 noticed in the text, as also is Mr. Lukis's. I have one, calcined, given to me by Pro- 

 fessor RoUeston, found, with a deposit of burnt bones and a calcined flint flake worked 

 on the edge, in a grave at Wytham near Oxford, where many burials of unburnt 

 bodies have been discovered, some of them associated with flint implements. 



