446 GLOUCESTEKSHIRE. 



the mound at the south-west end being a little out of the line 

 towards the west. 



CCXVI. This last-named barrow was 44 ft. in diameter, 5| ft. 

 high, and had never been disturbed in any way. The outer part 

 was entirely made of stone, the oolitic slabs being laid with much 

 regularity, sloping towards the apex. Into the original mound two 

 secondary interments had been inserted, the limits of the excavated 

 hollow (2 1 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep) being distinctly marked by the 

 filling-in, which to a large extent consisted of earth. These two 

 later burials were placed 5^ ft. south-by-west of the centre, and 

 consisted of two burnt bodies, each enclosed in an urn. The upper 

 one was inverted upon a flat stone, and the bottom of the vessel 

 was almost exposed, not being more than 4 in. below the surface of 

 the mound. Immediately beneath this stone was the bottom of 

 the second urn, inverted like the first upon a flat stone, which was 

 placed 3^ ft. above the natural level of the ground. The bones in 

 the upper urn were those of an aged person, and there had been 

 exostosis of the dorsal vertebrae and anchylosis of two of the 

 cervical vertebrae. The urn is 13 in. high, 8|^ in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 5| in. at the bottom. The only ornamentation upon it 

 consists of a band of impressions made by the finger-nail or by a 

 narrow sharp-edged instrument, which encircles the vessel 2 in. 

 below the mouth. The body contained in the low^er urn is that of 

 an adult. Amongst the bones was a bronze knife which had been 

 burnt with the body. It is oval in shape, 2|^in. long (including 

 the tang for insertion into the handle, ~ in. long), and l|in. wide. 

 It is quite plain, showing no great skill in its manufacture, and is 

 of a humbler character than similar implements which have not 

 unfrequently been met with accompanying interments both of burnt 

 and unburnt bodies \ The urn is 21 in. high, 14 in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 7^ in. at the bottom. It is encircled by two raised ribs, 

 one 5 in. below the mouth, the second one 6 in. below the first. 

 The space between the mouth and the upper rib has upon it four 

 equidistant arch-shaped projections or loops 4| in. high, and is further 

 ornamented, outside the loops, with a pattern made by impressions 



* Two knives almost identical with this were found, each in an urn with a deposit 

 of burnt hones, near St. Andrews, Fifeshire, where a large number of interments after 

 cremation were discovered. The knives and many of the urns there found are pre- 

 served in the Museum of the United Colleges at St. Andrews. Two knives very 

 similar to the Gloucestershire specimen, but rather better made, have been discovered 

 in barrows on the Yorkshire wolds. 



