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of tlie ag-es subsequent to those of the long harrow builders which 

 give unmistakeable evidence of the presence of more than one 

 skeleton intimately intermingled. Finally, burnt and unburnt 

 bodies^ are sometimes found so interred together as to show 

 certainly that the two modes of disposing of the dead bod}' were 

 from choice or necessity practised simultaneously. All this how- 

 ever does not prove that of the bodies thus found lying together 

 one set belonged to one and another to another class of men. If 

 one set of bones had really given evidence of the reception by their 

 owners of injuries ante mortem, whilst the other was free from any 

 marks of such lesions, there would have been some reason for 

 accepting this view. This however I have shown not to be the 

 case. Or, if it could be shown that in certain barrows one or 

 more skeletons were arranged apart and carefully, whilst other 

 skeletons were disposed around such principal interment but in 

 such a way as to show that less care and trouble had been bestowed 

 upon them, much probability would have attached to the view 

 that these latter skeletons might have been those of captives or 

 of slaves slaughtered in honour of the chief represented by the 

 central interment. But I have shown above^ pp. 530 and 535, 

 that where a single undisturbed interment has been found in 

 company with, though distinguishable from, a number of bones 

 giving evidence of the presence with it of several other bodies, 

 these latter bones give evidence of their having been placed as 

 we find them with a certain pious painstaking which arranged 

 them, when parts, not of a body, but of a skeleton, without ana- 

 tomical knowledge, though obviously with a view to making room 

 for the skeleton found undisturbed. What we have to deal with 

 in such cases as those described above I. c. are cases of successive 



Ban'ow Ixxxii. Woman and child. 



Barrow Ixxxv. Two children. 



Barrow exxxiii. Two adults. 

 ^ See for this account of barrows x, xi, xiii, xxvi, Ixix, clxi, clxxvi. For the 

 practice of cremation and inhumation simultaneously, see Kemble, Hora; Ferales, 

 p. 918; Ne^dlle's Saxon Obsequies, p. 11; Wylie, Archa»logia, xxxv-ii. p. 456; 

 Akerman, Ai-chaologia, xxxviii. p. 85; Inventorium Sepulchrale, pp. 165, 195; 

 Weinhold, I. c, bd. xxix. p. 138, bd. xxx. p. 176 ; Lindenschmidt, Archiv f iir An- 

 thropologie, iii. 114. Burning and inhumation are carried on siuniltaneously now 

 amongst the Gonds. The women and children of the Maria tribe arc always buried, 

 and Colonel Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 283, suggests that unmarried males 

 may be similarly disposed of. In the Report of the Ethnological Committee of the 

 Jubbulpore Exhibition, Nagpore, 1868, p. 81, it is stated that burning is considered 

 most honourable amongst the Gonds, but being expensive is usually confined to 

 the old. 



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