4 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



north of this spot there appeared a mass of charcoal 

 and burnt earth, containing nothing of interest. After 

 digging five or six feet deeper, operations were dis- 

 continued ; and on the next day shafts were excavated 

 from the centre, so as completely to examine every 

 part, without any further discovery, and in every 

 direction charcoal was found mingled with the heap, 

 not in patches, but in fragments. 



The other barrow was raised in a less conspicuous 

 situation, about three hundred yards down the south 

 slope of Allington Hill, part of the same range situate 

 about a quarter of a mile to the south-west. Both are 

 marked in the Ordnance map. An entrance was 

 obtained from the east-north-east, passing south-south- 

 west through the centre of the mound. Here a thin 

 layer of charcoal appeared extending many feet in 

 every direction. Amongst the soil thrown out, portions 

 of two vases, broken, probably, at a previous opening, 

 were found, " sufficing to prove that this had been an 

 early Celtic, and not Roman deposit." One was the 

 lip of a vase of red ware, the other a portion of a jar 

 of the usual coarse, unbaked pottery, of black colour. 

 In this tumulus were found two small rounded pieces 

 of hard chalk, of the lower strata, called clunch. One 

 was a perfect ball, smooth, measuring an inch in 

 diameter ; the other was of the same size, ground 

 down in a regular manner, reducing it to a turbinated 

 shape. It had been probably intended to perforate 

 these as beads ; a specimen of the same material, 

 ground down in a similar manner and perforated, is in 

 the possession of Mr. Collings. 



