390 ON THE PEOPLE OF THE LONG-BARROW PERIOD. 



This barrow contained four more or less disturbed ' chambers,' 

 or 'cists/ In the case of the first of these receptacles of the 

 dead, which was the one which had suffered most in the way of 

 disturbance, there can be no doubt that the term ' chamber ' is the 

 right one to apply to it, as the limitary wall of the barrow formed 

 a passage leading down to it ; but in the case of the other three, 

 this passage was not found to exist, and though the end stones, 

 which give a ' cist' its distinctive character — that, namely, of being 

 closed on all sides — were not found in situ, it is easy to understand 

 how they may have been the first to be moved, when the plough 

 was first driven across the barrow, at right angles to the long axis 

 of which they stood. 



The 'chamber' having been most completely ruined, we can 

 with certainty depose to the presence of no more than two bodies 

 as having been found, represented by fragments in its immediate 

 neighbourhood, and as having, consequently, with some likelihood, 

 been once contained in its interior when intact. One of these had 

 been an adult, one a child, with the milk dentition only in place. 

 The bones of the adult were discoloured with manganic oxide, 

 as were those of an ox and horse found with them ; those of the 

 child were not. 



Of the three other receptacles, ' cists,' or ' chambers/ for the 

 dead, the first examined contained portions of the bodies of two 

 adults and four children, together with the larger part of the 

 skeleton of a young dog, and some other domestic animals' bones. 

 The second contained portions of ten skeletons, all of which, with 

 one exception— the skeleton of a boy or girl — had belonged to 

 adults, whilst the fourth contained only one skeleton, that of a 

 person between twelve and sixteen, with whom a fragment of coarse 

 domestic pottery was found. 



September 25, Friday. — The first operation in the way of ex- 

 amining this barrow took the shape of cutting a trench across its 

 eastward end, at right angles to its long axis, at a level which 

 subsequent examination showed to be about 8 feet to the westward 

 of the central concavity of the horned eastward end. 



At about 17 or 18 feet westwards from the centre point of the 

 eastward end were found some bones of a child, with the milk 

 dentition in place, about 2 feet or half-way down in the barrow. 

 Parts also of an ulna, of a tibia, of the phalanges, and of both 



