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of the centre was an urn, laid on its side ujson the natural surface 

 and protected by two stones, one set on the north side of it, the other 

 on the south. It is rudely made, 6| in. high, 6 in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom, in form something like fig. 56, 

 The upper part for a depth of 3 in. is ornamented by impres- 

 sions of loosely-twisted thong, irregularly placed and very close 

 together. Three feet north-west of the centre was a cinerary 

 urn reversed^ and filled with burnt bones belonging to two adults. 

 It was placed about a foot above the natural surface, and the 

 bottom had been destroyed by the plough. It is 12^ in. wide 

 at the mouth, and the upper part for a depth of 4| in. is covered 

 with thong-impressions irregularly made and forming no definite 

 pattern. The inside of the overhanging rim, 2f in. deep, has 

 a pattern of alternate series of vertical and horizontal lines of 

 twisted-thong impressions, like fig. 54 ; the horizontal series are 

 however nearly three times the width of the vertical. This was 

 probably the central and primary interment, the true centre having 

 been lost in the process of throwing up the mound. The farmer 

 occupying the land had, some time before I opened the barrow, 

 dug into the centre but found nothing, and within the limits of 

 the very narrow cutting he had made there were no signs of a 

 burial having ever taken place. There was nothing but a single 

 potsherd in the sand which he had disturbed. 



CXLVI. The second barrow was 16 ft. in diameter and 1 ft; 

 high, and was set upon a natural swell of the land. At the centre, 

 in a hollow 1 ft. in diameter and sunk to the same depth below 

 the surface, was a deposit of the burnt bones of a child, covered 

 over with large flat pieces of charcoal. The body had been burnt 

 on the spot, the hole having been first made. 



CXLYII. The third barrow did not apparently rise much above 

 the natural surface (at the spot rather higher than the adjoining 

 ground), any added material having been removed in ploughing. 

 In a hollow 2 ft. in diameter and 1|^ ft. deep was a deposit of 

 the burnt bones of an adult about 25 years of age, resting upon 

 a flat stone placed 10 in. above the bottom of the hollow. Beneath 

 this stone was a second deposit of burnt bones, those of a nearly 

 full-grown person ; with a part of the leg-bone of probably a deer, 

 also calcined ; amongst them on the south side was laid an ' incense 

 cup.' It is in shape much like one found in the next barrow, 



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