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The other two barrows were placed each on a natural rise of the 

 ground, and their artificial portion consisted of a few stones placed 

 on the top, so as to give a little additional height to the hill. 



CLV. The first was 16 ft. in diameter. At the centre, in a 

 hollow 2 ft. wide and sunk to a depth of If ft. below the natural 

 surface, was a deposit of the burnt bones of an adult, and amongst 

 them a single piece of calcined flint. 



CLVI. The second was oblong in shape, 16 ft. by 12 ft., and had 

 a hollow at the centre, 1^ ft. in diameter and 2 ft. deep. It 

 contained a deposit of burnt bones, those of an adult, and amongst 

 them were four flint chippings which had passed thi-ough the fire ; 



Fig. 148. i. 



they did not appear to have ever formed part of implements, but 

 had apparently when calcined been merely refuse pieces. 



Not quite a mile east of ' The Three Tremblers ' were two barrows 

 near together, being only thirty yards apart. 



CLVII. The first was 27 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. high, having 

 on the south side an additional portion, which projected about 5 ft. 

 beyond the original circumference of the mound, and had evidently 

 been added subsequently to its first construction. The whole 

 barrow was made of sand. Within the limits of the added portion, 

 about 8 ft. south-west of the centre of the barrow, and, as it 

 appeared, placed upon the surface of the mound as originally 

 formed and then covered over with the secondary material, was 

 a deposit of burnt bones scattered rather sparsely over an area 

 of li ft. in diameter. Amongst the bones, which were those of an 



