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from the original level of the ground to the present surface of the 

 barrow; this material had undergone the action of a very fierce 

 fire, to which intense burning the absence of charcoal is probably to 

 be attributed. At a distance of 11 ft. north from the centre of the 

 hollow already described was a second one, of oval form, S^ ft. by 

 2|- ft. and 2 ft. deep, running east-by-north and west-by-south. 

 Like the first, it was filled with burnt earth and stones, having 

 charcoal scattered here and there amongst the filling in, together 

 with a few pieces of burnt bone and a single fragment of plain 

 dark-coloured pottery near the top. Two feet from the northern 

 edge of this hollow was a third, also oval, lying north and south, 

 4 ft. long by 3 ft. wide, and 3 ft. deep. This, like the other two, 

 was filled with burnt matter, having in it a few pieces of burnt bone 

 and a fragment of the same kind of pottery as that found in the 

 other holes. At the northern extremity of this hollow, which was 

 18|ft. from the highest part of the barrow, the linear deposit of 

 burnt matter ceased, the place where it terminated being situated 

 at a distance of 20 ft. from the southern edge of the first hollow. 

 All these holes, it must be remembered, were placed beneath the 

 line of the deposit which contained the burials, and would appear 

 to have been so arranged with the purpose of keeping up a draught 

 to aid in the burning. The burials, in the shape of a large quantity 

 of burnt bones, broken and scattered, as in similar deposits in the 

 long barrows already described, were found placed as well in the 

 lowermost layer of the burnt earth and stones, as beneath it upon 

 the natural surface of the ground, in confused intermixture with 

 earth, clayey sand, and stones. At the south end of the linear 

 deposit the calcined bones were more frequently met with amongst 

 the burnt stones above the surface, whilst at the north end they 

 were confined to the bottom, and rested on the natural surface. At 

 one point, a little to the south of the second hole, was part of an 

 upper jaw and the whole of a lower jaw, with the left temporal bone, 

 these being found lying close together, with a portion of skull 

 placed a little distance from them ; two cervical vertebrae lay 8 in. 

 apart, and near the bones just mentioned, but no other vertebra or 

 any other bones of the body were present. There was no appear- 

 ance, indeed, in any part of the linear deposit as if a whole body 

 had ever been placed there. The natural surface soil beneath the 

 burnt deposit, as also the ordinary material of the barrow in 

 immediate contact with it, were to some extent aftected by fire, 

 though the signs of burning were trifling when compared with the 



