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had been originally, but it may have been somewhere about 5 ft. 

 by 4 ft. The bones contained in it, when examined by me, were 

 disposed as follows:— The first bones come upon were bones of 

 children, some of which had apparently been left in situ, and upon 

 the left side, whilst others had as evidently been disturbed. As 

 there were no less than three children with the first permanent 

 molar in use, but with no more, or with only the first incisor of 

 the second set in addition, and consequently all three between seven 

 and eight years of age, in this cist and the western half of it, and, 

 besides them, a child of two years or something less, it is a little 

 difficult to be quite sure how many of so many similar bones had 

 been placed in sitio. None of all the bones lay upon the natural 

 ground, but all had a flagstone interposed between them and it. 

 On the south side, and, I think, at the south-west angle, part of 

 the lower jaw of a strong adult and the atlas were found near each 

 other. Farther east, under one large flagstone, were lying the 

 patella of a strong adult male and some bones of a skull of a child. 

 Of course, these bones must have been disturbed to get thus into 

 company with each other, and with no other bones between the 

 flagstones. In the middle of the cist were found some of the bones 

 of a youngish dog, and amongst them its lower jaw, which show it 

 to have been about the size of an English mastifi"; and in the same 

 situation were bones of ox, of sheep, and of several human subjects, 

 young and old. But the most striking " find " in the cist was in 

 the north-east corner. There, between two large stones, were 

 found, lying in situ, the femora, humeri, ulnae, radii, clavicles, 

 pelvis, ribs, and many vertebrse of a woman past the middle period of 

 life. She had been laid on her left side ; and between her chest and 

 the north wall of the cist lay the pelvis and leg bones of a young 

 dog. . . . The woman had been laid so that her skull just projected 

 beyond the slab upon which the upper trunk bones w^ere laid ; and 

 the skull had just escaped from being smashed, when the top stone 

 fell in, at the cost of being carried ofi", probably by some mediaeval 

 or later tomb-riflers, and so lost to us. Half the lower jaw was still 

 in situ, and has been recovered.' 



Two feet to the north of the chamber, the contents of which 

 have been just described, was a third chamber, placed 82 ft. from 

 the re-entering angle of the east end of the barrow. It had a 

 direction north-by-west and south-by-east. The north end, which 

 was open, that is, having no upright stone to fill up the space, came 

 up to within 2 ft. of the enclosing wall of the barrow. At that 



