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line, a disturbed body was met with, placed about 6 in. above the 

 natural surface. It appeared to be the body of a girl, about 18 

 years of age, and amongst the bones were those of a young child ; 

 while a little to the east were some of the bones— a femur, lower 



jaw, &c. of a second child. Sixteen feet east-north-east of the 



centre, and five feet south of the mesial line, was the body, pro- 

 bably of an aged female, laid one foot above the natural surface, 

 on the left side, the head to N. by W., the hands being up to the 

 face, and turned outwards at right angles to the wrists. Six feet 

 south-west by west of the centre, and on the mesial line, about a 

 foot above the natural surface, lay the disturbed body of an aged 

 woman, in company with the bones of which were four pieces of 

 what had once been a very fine ' food vessel ' with pierced ears. 



At the west end of the barrow, and rising about a foot above 

 the due level of the long barrow proper, if such this mound ever 

 had been, was (as noticed before) what looked like a small round 

 barrow placed upon the end of the existing long mound. Beneath 

 it, and only just above the natural surface, was the body, probably 

 of a girl under 16 years of age, laid on the right side, the head to 

 W. by S., the right hand up to the face, the left hand on the hips. 

 In front of the face was a ' food vessel.' It is roughly made, of 

 coarse badly-wrought clay, and is 7f in. high, 8 in. wide at the 

 mouth, and 3 in. at the bottom. It is in shape like fig. 69, but 

 with two ribs an inch apart, and is very slightly ornamented with 

 short vertical lines, in pairs, drawn with a pointed instrument, at 

 intervals of from i in. to f in., upon the two projecting ribs. 



There were no potsherds, and only a few flint chippings, found 

 in the mound ; but charcoal occurred in considerable quantities in 

 various parts, not however as the remains of fires made on the spot, 

 but brought from others lighted elsewhere. Some few bones of 

 a small ox and two roe-deer's antlers were also found. 



Except in shape, and perhaps in the construction of the mound 

 at the north-east end, this barrow has nothing in common with 

 the long barrows already described. There were no dislocated or 

 imperfect bodies, and, so far as could be made out, there did not 

 seem to have been any primary interment besides that of the body 

 with the dark-coloured, unusual-shaped vessel — if indeed it be safe 

 to regard that as being such. Neither had there been any burn- 

 mg of bodies on the spot ; the single burnt body found— most 

 probably a secondary interment — having been burnt at some other 

 place, and the bones then collected and inserted in the barrow. 



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