UPON THE SERIES OF PREHISTORIC CRANIA. 291 



burnt, are frequently found so buried together as to leave no doubt 

 that they were interred simultaneously. The very structure of a 

 cremation long barrow as described (' British Barrows/ p. 495) by 

 Canon Greenwell shows that all the bodies it contains must have 

 been subjected at one and the same time to the action of fire. 

 Burnt bones again are not rarely found l in the cists and also in 

 the urns of the ages subsequent to those of the long-barrow builders 

 which give unmistakeable evidence of the presence of more than 

 one skeleton intimately intermingled. Finally, burnt and unburnt 

 bodies 2 are sometimes found so interred together as to show 

 certainly that the two modes of disposing of the dead body 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 



1 Interments in urns giving proof of the presence in them of more than one body 

 are recorded in the accounts given in ' British Barrows ' of — 



Barrow cxlv. 2. Two skeletons in one urn. 

 Barrow clxxxii. Woman and child in one urn. 

 Barrow cxcvii. Two adults in one urn. 

 Barrow ccv. I. Two women and child. 

 Barrow ccv. 2. Two or three adults. 

 Interments in cists giving similar proof of the presence in them of more than one 

 burnt body are recorded in the accounts given in the same work of — 

 Barrow lxii. Two bodies. 

 Barrow lxxxii. Woman and child. 

 Barrow lxxxv. Two children. 

 Barrow cxxxiii. Two adults. 



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

 practice of cremation and inhumation simultaneously, see Kemble, * Horae Ferales,' 

 p. 918; Neville's 'Saxon Obsequies,' p. 11 ; Wylie, ' Archaeologia,' xxxvii. p. 456; 

 Akerman, 'Archaeologia,' xxxviii. p. 85; « Inventorium Sepulchraie/ pp. 165, 195; 

 Weinhold, I.e., bd. xxix. p. 138, bd. xxx. p. 176; Lindenschmidt, 'Archiv fur An- 

 thropologic,' iii. 114. Burning and inhumation are carried on simultaneously now 

 amongst the Gonds. The women and children of the Mana" tribe are 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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