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southern wall ; but the intervening length, to which the testimony 

 of one of our workmen spoke, as well as my own notes and those 

 of Mr. Royce, had disappeared in 1874. What, however, is cer- 

 tain is, that westward of a line which we drew in the ground- 

 plan, the barrow was crossed from north to south by a zone or 

 strip, varying in width from % feet 8 inches in the region of 

 the chamber to 3 feet 6 inches in the middle line, and differing 

 from all other segments of the entire length of the barrow in 

 the important particular of lodging eight human skeletons. In 

 the chamber contained in this transverse zone were found, in 1867, 

 parts of three skeletons, two being skeletons of adults, and one a 

 skeleton of a child. At the same time a third adult skull was found 

 immediately to the north, and a fourth immediately to the south of 

 the chamber ; whilst outside the chamber again, but at a greater 

 distance to the south than the skulls, were found two headless 

 bodies, which Mr. Royce found 'one about the centre of the barrow, 

 west of the supposed central walling, and one more to the south- 

 west.' Working in 1874 in this transverse zone, we found, at 

 points varying from a spot a little south of the middle line 

 of the barrow, four skeletons, one of an aged woman (described 

 below under label ' Swell i., 22-9-1874'), one a male skeleton 

 without a head, and two skeletons of children. Portions of the 

 headless skeleton found by us in 1874 fitted with fragments 

 of bones found and given to me by Mr. Royce in 1867 ; and the 

 later headless skeleton, therefore, may be supposed to be identical 

 with one of the two discovered earlier, which one of its discoverers 

 did not think it worth while to remove in its entirety. But what 

 is of consequence is to note, that after a very careful examination 

 of all the bones obtained from the chamber, and from the transverse 

 zone crossing the barrow in the meridian of the chamber in the 

 year 1867 and in the year 1874, we proved that there was no proof 

 in the entire assortment of the existence of more than eight 

 skeletons, three of which had belonged to children, and five to 

 adults. It is well known that many large barrows were erected for 

 the purpose of containing only just such a chamber as the one 

 found in this one, and for lodging only just as few bodies as—- 

 or, indeed, often fewer than— the number found here. But it is 

 also well known that many of these long barrows contained more 

 than one, or even two, sepulchral receptacles, ■ chambers,' or " cists f 



