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temporals of an adult, were found at about the same distance from 

 the east end, and at a point a little south by west of the middle 

 line. In the middle line of the barrow at this distance from the 

 east end was a blackish seam of about 6 feet 6 inches in width 

 containing bones, but limited in the eastward direction by masses 

 of stones, under which also were found a few fragments of human 

 bones, adult and young. Amongst the bones from this part of the 

 barrow was one fragment of burnt bone, possibly human, as well as 

 some teeth of ox and horse. These teeth, as also the human 

 temporals, were stained by the manganic oxide. These appearances 

 were difficult of interpretation until we came upon the ruins of a 

 'chamber/ about 6 feet or so further to the north-west, the 

 destruction of which, and the scattering the contents of which, 

 may explain the blackening of the central strip of the barrow 

 observed here, as also the presence of the human bones. The 

 single burnt bone, whether human or not, may have been an 

 accidental importation. Some adult teeth of Bos, from the south 

 side of the barrow, found together, are beautifully coloured bv the 

 manganic oxide. 



September 26, Saturday.— A piece of the parietal of a human 

 subject, beyond the period of childhood at least, a considerable 

 development of diploe having taken place in it, was found at the 

 bottom, to the south of the middle line, under the slaty, slantingly- 

 arranged rubble, not under the central deposit, at a point about 

 27 feet from the centre point of the eastward end. On a level with 

 it, as regards the long axis of the barrow, but close to its northern 

 wall, we came upon a stone, 4 feet 9 inches long, 3 feet 2 inches 

 high, placed on its edge, and sunk some way into the natural soil. 

 It had its long axis at right angles to that of the barrow, the wall 

 of which, as afterwards discovered, formed a passage, 4 feet 2 inches 

 wide, leading down to it. Another large stone, 2 feet 10 inches 

 long, 3 feet 3 inches high, also standing on its edge, abutted on the 

 inner end of the first stone, and projected in a south-westerly 

 direction into the barrow ; and two other large stones were lying 

 flat near the upright ones. There can be little or no doubt that 

 these stones represent what was once a chamber, such as that found 

 in the long barrow, Swell i. 



On this day some few bones of mammals and birds were found 

 in the barrow, west of the line of the cist, and some way above the 



