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been subjected. The vase in shape and ornamentation is veiy 

 much like fig. 161, being 3^ in. high, 4^ in. wide at the mouth, 

 and 1|- in. at the bottom ; it is covered over the whole surface with 

 impressions made by a sharp-pointed instrument, forming encircling 

 bands arranged herring-bone fashion ; a grooved line encircles it 

 at the shoulder, and two bands similar to those on the outside are 

 found on the inside of the lip. Round the cist, and between it and 

 the enclosing circle, were six burnt bodies which were placed in the 

 same number of urns, all (with one exception) standing upright, 

 and three of them covered, each with a small flat stone. They 

 were however so much decayed that only one could be removed ; 

 this was the one found inverted, the mouth being closed with clay. 

 It contained the calcined remains of a young person about seventeen 

 years of age, and amongst the bones were the pointed end of a bone 

 pin and a flint flake (2| in. long and | in. wide) secondarily worked 

 along both edges ; these articles had both passed through the fire. 

 The urn, in shape like fig. 56, is very rudely made, lOi in. high, 

 8| in. wide at the mouth, and 3|^in. at the bottom. On its upper 

 part, for a depth of four inches, it is roughly ornamented with an 

 irregularly-formed herring-bone pattern of five bands of lines 

 prod^^ced by the application of a sharp-pointed instrument, and on 

 the inside of the lip is a row of vertical lines similarly formed. 

 Without the circle of stones, on the east side of the barrow, was 

 another cinerary urn filled with burnt bones, but so much decayed 

 that it could not be preserved. A great quantity of burnt earth 

 was met with in the barrow ^. 



The fact that a very young child occupied the most important 

 position in the barrow is not a singular one ; similar cases having 

 occurred in several of the sepulchral jnounds an examination of 

 which is recorded in this volume. From the care with which this 

 cist was constructed and the pains bestowed upon it, as also from the 

 presence of an enclosing circle, with the deposits of burnt bodies 

 surrounding the primary interment, it may be reasonably inferred 

 that this was the burying-place of the much-beloved child of a man 

 of high standing amongst his people ; and it is not improbable 

 that the burnt bodies were those of dependents slain at the funeral, 

 and possibly with the view that they might in another world 

 continue to render those services they had before been accustomed 

 to perform. 



' For an account of this barrow, with figures of the urns, &c., see Proc. of 

 Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. iv. ji. 390. 



