368 EAKLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. x. 



chiefly met with in the south of England. 1 In cases of 



FIG. 138. Bell-shaped Barrow. 



inhumation the dead were usually buried in the con- 

 tracted posture, as in the oval tumulus at Winterbourne 



FIG. 139. Section of Bowl-shaped Barrow, East Kennet, Avebury, Wilts. 



Stoke, 2 along with flint javelin-heads (Figs. 132, 133), 

 and a drinking cup, and in the bowl-shaped barrow 

 at East Kennet, along with a drinking cup figured 

 above (Fig. 127), and a hammer- axe (Fig. 140). Some- 

 times the body, covered with linen or woollen cloth- 

 ing, rested at full length in a coffin made of the 

 hollow trunk of an oak 3 which had been split in two. 

 Where cremation was practised the ashes of the dead 



1 They have been classified by Thurnam, Archceologia, xliii. p. 285. 



2 Proceed. Soc. Antiq. S. ii. 427. 



3 Gristhorpe, and Scale-house Barrow, Rylstone, Yorks, Hove, near 

 Brighton. Williamson, Tumulus near Gristhorpe. 4to. Scarborough, 

 1836. Greenwell, British Barrows, p. 375. 8vo. London, 1877. Bar- 

 clay Phillips, Sussex Archceol. Coll., ix. 119. 



