524 ^ONG BABllOWS. 



with a sharp-pointed instrument, and on the remainder of it by 

 impressions of a notched strip of bone or wood. The remains of 

 three bodies (evidently Saxons, as indicated by the articles asso- 

 ciated with one of them) were discovered, in November 1874, close 

 beneath the surface of the barrow, and about 18 ft. from the re- 

 entering- angle of the ' horned ' east end. One of them was that 

 of a Awman, about thirty years of age, with whom two bronze 

 buckles, an iron knife, and an amber bead had been buried, and to 

 whom may also have belonged a stone spindle-whorl found near 

 to the place but 4 ft. below the surface. The other bodies were 

 those of an old man and of an infant, both of which Dr. RoUeston 

 thinks had been disturbed and replaced when the body of the 

 woman was interred. 



[CCXXXII.^ A fourth long barrow, situated about half-a-mile 

 to the northwards of the village of Nether Swell, and at a less 

 distance to the W. S.W. from the village of Upper Swell, was 

 examined in the autumn of 1875 and the spring of 1876 by the 

 Rev. David Royce and myself The barrow was visited by Canon 

 Greenwell, and a plan which has been of great use to me was 

 taken of it by Sir Henry Dry den, Bart. This Upper Swell 

 barrow, like the barrows Nos. ccxxx, ecxxxi, had its larger end 

 prolonged into two horns, but it diflPered from those and from 

 all other non-cremation long barrows which I have seen or read 

 of, in having its place for the reception of dead bodies, not upon 

 the surface of, but sunk into the natural ground. It is probably 

 owing to this peculiarity that its contents have suffered, as I 

 believe, scarcely at all since it was disused by the race or tribe 

 of men who piled it up. The barrow occupies part of the top and 

 part of the downward slope of a small hill, known as ' Hayle 

 Knap,' upon the estate of Alfred Sartoris, Esq., for whose permis- 

 sion to examine it our acknowledgments are due. 



The extreme length of the barrow may be taken as having been 

 a little over 120 ft. ; and its extreme breadth, at the end with 

 horns, as 40 ft. Its long axis runs from N.N.E. to S. S.W., its 

 larger and horned end lying at the N.N.E. , and having a maxi- 

 mum width at the base of its horns of 40 ft. Its width at the 

 smaller end is about 15 ft. 6 in. less than at the larger. The exact 



The account of this harrow, cout.iinod within Imackcts, is ))V Professor Eolleston. 



