520 LONG BARROWS. 



where they were found, in the condition of more or less complete 

 skeletons. 



Opposite to this chamber, and within li ft. of the south wall of 

 the barrow, a fourth chamber was met with. It had an east and 

 west direction, and was 3 ft. 2 in. long-, 3 ft. wide, and 1 ft. deep. 

 There was no stone on the north end or side, and it was therefore 

 to that extent incomplete. It contained the body of a young- 

 person, between twelve and sixteen years of age, laid on the right 

 side, with the head to E. by S., the hands being up to the face. 

 In front of the knees was part of a vessel of pottery, including a 

 considerable portion of the rim, which had not been less than 9 in. 

 in diameter. It is dark-coloured and quite plain, having some 

 broken stone mixed with the clay; the bottom has been rounded 

 and the rim has a recurved lip. It differs entirely from the ordi- 

 naiy sepulchral ware of the round barrows, but corresponds with 

 pottery I have found in the condition of pieces of broken vessels 

 on several occasions in the barrows of the Yorkshire Wolds. It 

 has been in general shape not unlike fig. 91, though not so flat on 

 the bottom and somewhat deeper. 



The occurrence of the bead is one which requires a more than 

 ordinary notice. It is, so far as I know, the first time that any- 

 thing in the shape of an ornament has been discovered in connec- 

 tion with a primary interment in a long barrow. That the burials, 

 in the chamber in which it w'as found, belong to the people who 

 ordinarily buried in that form of sepulchral mound, cannot I think 

 be questioned. For apart from the way in which the interments 

 appear to have been made, certainly not after the ordinary round 

 barrow fashion, the type of the skulls is emphatically that of the 

 earlier people to whom the long barrows are attributed. It is a 

 remarkable circumstance, and one not easy to account for, that 

 ornaments should be almost entirely wanting in association with 

 long barrow burials, and this becomes more difiicult to explain 

 when it is considered that in the chambers of the Stone Age (cor- 

 responding in that respect with our long barrows) of Scandinavia 

 and France, beads of various materials and shapes are by no means 

 unfrequent. On the other hand, it must be remembered that 

 weapons, implements, and pottery are also of very rare occurrence 

 in the same class of British burial mounds, whilst they are common 

 in those of the countries just referred to. 



