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a considerable part of a headless male skeleton lying on its right 

 side — as there are indications to prove, from the wear of the bones 

 (irrespective of notes taken or not taken at the time), that nearly all 

 the skeletons from this chamber, and its neighbourhood, were laid. 

 The head of this skeleton, if it was not buried in the headless 

 condition in which we found it, must have lain or been propped 

 against the eastward wall of the zone or trench. The very cramped 

 position which it would thus have occupied may seem to favour 

 the notion of its having been thus headless when first deposited, 

 a notion which the discovery of heads buried separately in other 

 barrows 1 might, in the absence of other considerations, serve to 

 confirm. The patella, tibia, and fibula were in situ, as well as the 

 clavicle, first rib, and the upper end of the humerus of the right 

 side, and some of the dorsal vertebrae ; but much breakage had 

 taken place, and parts of a fibula and tibia of the left side, found in 

 relation with these bones by us in 1874, were found to be parts of 

 bones taken up by Mr. Royce in 1 867, and given by him to me, 

 showing that much disturbance had taken place then, and render 

 it unsafe to suppose that any of the dislocations of the trunk 

 bones, or indeed the separation of the head, may have dated from 

 the time when the body was first put into the barrow. With 

 what was actually seen by us in 1874 must be coupled what was 

 reported to us from 1867, and this went to the effect that two 

 headless bodies were found in this transverse strip of the barrow, 

 west of the central walling, and that one of these lay about the 

 centre of the barrow, and the other further to the south-west ; 

 whilst all the skulls, five in number, discovered in 1867 were in, or 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of, the cist. The cist or chamber 

 itself contained three bodies in 1867 undisturbed — at least to any 

 recognisable extent. The fact that some of the entire number of 

 eight bodies were found at a considerable distance from the 

 skeleton-containing chamber, and that they were found without 

 any of the upright flagging with which those of the other skeletons 

 were placed ; and the fact that two skulls, which may be supposed 

 to have belonged to the two headless skeletons, were found placed 

 close to the chamber, one on its north, the other on its south side, 

 seem, when taken together, to indicate that the three skeletons in 

 the chamber were interred at one time, but that time one subsequent 

 1 See Prof. Unger, 'Gbtting. Anth. Verein,' i,, 1874, pp. 32-33. 



