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at full length, and with the head — as was the case likewise with the 

 two former bodies — to the west. Below these burials, and 4 ft. 

 beneath the surface of the barrow, was a cist, formed of four stones 

 set on edg-e and covered by a fifth ; the cist was 3|- ft. long, 2 ft. 

 wide at one end, 1 ft. 5 in. at the other^ and the same in depth. It 

 was filled with fine gravel, and on the bottom was the body of an 

 adult male in a contracted position, the head being to the south ; in 

 front of the chest was a ' food vessel,' and near it a flint knife 

 2|-in. long and 1^ in. wide. The bottom of the cist w^as paved 

 with small stones ; and below and around it were many fragments 

 of human bones with potsherds and pieces of charcoal, all of which 

 seems to imply that in the putting in of this cist an earlier inter- 

 ment had been disturbed. On the north side of the barrow were 

 found two cinerary urns filled with burnt bones. One^ which is 

 perfect [fig. 58], is 6^ in. high, 5| in. wide at the mouth, and 3f in. 

 at the bottom. On the lip of the rim is an encircling row of 

 saltire-shaped markings placed close together, and made with a 

 sharp-pointed instrument. The rim, which is 3 in. deep, is 

 ornamented with ten encompassing rows of rudely cuneiform 

 markings, due apparently to the application of a triangular-ended 

 piece of wood or bone ; for a space of 2 in. below the rim the urn is 

 covered with a reticulated pattern made by an instrument similar 

 to that with which those on the lip are to be attributed ; below this 

 the urn is plain. The other one, a much better manufactured 

 vessel, is too imperfect to allow anything more being said of it than 

 that it has been much larger than the last- mentioned urn, and that 

 the upper part has been ornamented with thong-impressions. 



When I commenced the examination of what was remaining of 

 the barrow it was 54 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. high, having originally 

 been both wider and higher, but to what extent I could obtain no 

 suflBcient information. About 12 ft. south-east of the present 

 centre was a deposit of burnt bones, those of a child at the 

 period of the first dentition, laid upon a flat stone just above the 

 natural surface. Six feet south of the centre, and also just above 

 the natural surface, was the body of a man laid upon the right side, 

 with the head to the south and the hands up to the face ; behind 

 the lower part of the back was a ' food vessel.' Beneath the vase, 

 and extending under the bones of the unburnt body, was a deposit 

 of burnt bones, those of a strong adult man ; the two bodies having 

 most certainly both been placed in the mound at the same time. It 

 is not possible to affirm with which of the two the ' food vessel ' 



