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clay and of charcoal. At the east corner was placed a ' food vessel,' 

 laid on its side, with the mouth to the south. At the south corner 

 was a round hollow space, as if the head (supposing an unburnt 

 body to have ever occupied the cist) might once have been deposited 

 at the spot ; there was however no trace of unburnt bone anywhere 

 in the cist, but at the south-east end a few burnt bones were found. 

 The vase is in shape like fig. 71, and has four unpierced ears at the 

 shoulder ; it is 4 in. high, 4f in. wide at the mouth, and 2^ in. at 

 the bottom. The upper part, for a space of 1 in. extending as far as 

 the shoulder, and the inside of the lip, are both ornamented with 

 encircling bands of lines arranged herring-bone fashion. At the 

 shoulder, and passing over the ears, are three encircling rows of 

 dotted impressions. The lower part has a pattern which consists of 

 vertical lines, each of them having short lines sloping from it on 

 either side, the effect being to give a kind of feather-like appearance 

 to the ornamentation. All the lines have been made with a sharp- 

 pointed instrument. 



CCV. The second cairn was 24 ft. in diameter, and only l^ft. 

 high, having lost somewhat of its original height through the 

 removal of the stones of which it was principally constituted. 

 Eight feet south-east of the centre, in a hole 14 in. in diameter and 

 sunk to a depth of 2 ft. below the natural surface, was a deposit of 

 burnt bones, amongst which were four pieces of flint, also calcined, 

 probably the remains of an implement, and a perforated piece of 

 burnt bone, apparently part of a pin, and made from a metatarsal 

 of a red-deer. The bones are those of two adults of small size, 

 probably women, and of a child ; some bones, also calcined, of a 

 young goat or sheep were amongst the human bones. They consisted 

 of a tibia, astragalus, os calcis and metatarsal, all belonging to the 

 same leg, and the presumption is that part of an animal, in the 

 shape of food, had been placed with the human bodies on the funeral 

 pile. A similar occurrence, but there in connection with unburnt 

 bones, will be found noted in the account of two barrows on Flixton 

 Wold [Nos. Ixx, Ixxi]. The hole in which these bodies were 

 contained was lined with thin and small pieces of stone, and had 

 two slabs laid on the bottom, and two small covers placed beneath 

 a larger one on the top. Eight feet south-south-east of the centre 

 was another deposit of burnt bones, laid on the natural surface in a 

 round heap 12 in. in diameter. Amongst the bones, which were 

 those of certainly two, and perhaps of three, adult bodies, were three 



