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at the back pierced from the middle to the side\ Eight feet 

 north-east of the centre, and one foot below the surface of the 

 barrow, was an urn lying* amongst a deposit of burnt bones. This 

 vessel is rudely made, quite plain and without any rim; it is 

 4f in. wide at the mouth, 2| in. at the bottom, and 5 in. high. 

 Amongst the bones were four pieces of calcined flint, which bear 

 the appearance of having been portions of fabricated implements, 

 and a flint chipping unburnt. At the centre, and 1 ft. below the 

 surface of the barrow, were many portions of three urns, apparently 

 cinerary, in company with bui'nt bones, the urns seeming to 

 have been broken by the introduction of a secondary interment. 

 One of these vessels has had an overhanging 

 rim, and is ornamented, both upon the rim and 

 below it, with impressions of an oval-pointed 

 instrument ; the other two have twisted-thong 

 markings upon them. The introduced burial 

 was found 2 ft. south-east of the centre, at 

 which point, and 2 ft. below the surface of the 

 barrow, was placed a flat stone covering a 

 cinerary urn standing upright and carefully 

 packed round with charcoal. The urn was about 

 one-third full of burnt bones, the remains of a 

 person scarcely of full age, and either of a 

 female or a man of small stature ; the space 

 remaining above them was occupied partly 

 by charcoal, and partly by a second urn in an inverted position, 

 full of earth, with a few burnt bones. Amongst the bones in 

 the larger or inclosing urn was a burnt flint [fig. 151], which 

 may have been a knife ^. It has lost part of its broader end 

 during the process of burning ; one face is flat, just as it was 

 taken off from the core, the other is carefully flaked along both 

 edges to a point at the end. The larger vessel [fig. 56] is 12|^ in. 

 high, lOfin. wide at the mouth, and 3|-in. at the bottom. The 

 two encircling lines on the inside of the lip of the rim have 



Fig. 151. 



* This jet article might have been cousidei-ed as a button aud not a bead, if the per- 

 foration at the back had not run through to the side. In several instances what would 

 ordinarily have been regarded as buttons have been discovered in close connection with 

 other jet objects which evidently formed portions of necklaces, and have been in those 

 cases classed as beads. 



^ A similarly-shaped flint implement was found in an urn with burnt bones, under 

 a barrow at Broughton, in Lincolnshire. It is noticed in the Journal of the Arch. Inst., 

 vol. viii. p. 344, and is there called an arrow-head. 



