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adjoining ground. The grave was 3^ ft. long^ 2 ft. wide, and 2^ ft. 

 deep, the longer axis running in a direction north and south. It 

 had been filled in w4th earth and stones, and on the bottom was 

 laid the body of an aged man on the right side, with the head 

 to S., the right hand being under the chin and the left upon 

 the knees. In the filling-in of the grave were some pieces of 

 charcoal, a few small fragments of animal bone not of sufficient 

 size to be identified, and portions of a red-deer's antler. 



CLXVIII. The fourth barrow was placed upon the same ridge, 

 and lay rather to the west of the second. It was smaller than the 

 others, being only 18 ft. in diameter and 2^ ft. high ; it had a 

 circle of small stones set round the base, itself being made of 

 stones and earth. On digging into it, signs of former disturbance 

 immediately appeared ; and it soon became quite evident that at 

 some time or other it had been completely turned over. The 

 remains of bones, both burnt and unburnt, showed that it had 

 contained at least two burials, one after cremation, the other by 

 inhumation. 



About two miles from the barrows just noticed, and situated 

 upon a piece of haugh-land in Mallerstang, close by the side of the 

 river Eden and barely out of reach of a high flood, are two cairns. 

 The position is a most unusual one for the site of sepulchral 

 mounds, the rule with regard to them being, as it is almost 

 superfluous to remark, that they are nearly always placed upon 

 high ground. The larger one of these two cairns, which is still 

 60 ft. in diameter, notwithstanding the fact that a large quantity of 

 stones has been removed from it for various purposes, yet remains 

 to a great extent unexplored. 



CLXIX. About fifty yards distant from it lies the second, a 

 much smaller one. It was only 15 ft. in diameter, 1^ ft. high, and 

 had at the base some stones larger than those employed in its 

 ordinary material, being probably the remains of an enclosing 

 circle. At the centre, and sunk 1^ ft. below the natural surface, 

 was a round hollow, 1| ft. in diameter, covered over by a flat stone. 

 In it was a deposit of burnt bones, not laid together, but scattered 

 amongst the earth with which the hole was filled. The bones 

 are those of a child in the period of the first dentition ; with them 

 was a piece of calcined bone, pierced with two holes, being 



