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drinking-cup only a couple of inches from the surface of the soil 

 over the barrow. This cup was of a not uncommon pattern, 

 thong-made ; and with its paste red outside and black inwards, but 

 was somewhat thicker than 'drinking-cups' are usually. It had 

 probably been interred with a body of a later period than those 

 buried in the cist, and had come into the position in which we 

 found it in consequence of agricultural or other disturbance of 

 the place. To such other disturbance the following appearances 

 seemed to speak. The bones seemed in a few cases to have 

 been left, partially, at least, in situ; but in many cases I found 

 a few bones between a couple of slates, the lower of which, in 

 its turn, overlaid a second set of bones. This would appear to 

 be explicable by supposing that, the roof of the cist being re- 

 moved, its contents were taken out partially, and then thrown 

 in again, with any rubble which came to hand, so as to fill the 

 cist up again. 



It is not safe to say what the precise size of the cist had been 

 originally, but it may have been somewhere about 5 feet by 4 feet. 

 The bones contained in it, when examined by me, were disposed 

 as follows : — The first bones come upon were bones of children, 

 some of which had apparently been left in situ, and upon the left 

 side, whilst others had as evidently been disturbed. As there were 

 no less than three children with the first permanent molar in use, 

 but with no more, or with only the first incisor of the second set 

 in addition, and consequently all three between 7 and 8 years of 

 age, in this cist, and the western half of it, and, besides them, a 

 child of 2 years, or something less, it is a little difficult to be quite 

 sure how many of so many similar bones had been placed in situ. 

 None of all the bones lay upon the natural ground, but all had a 

 flagstone interposed between them and it. On the south side, and, 

 I think, at the south-west angle, part of the lower jaw of a strong 

 adult and the atlas were found near each other. Further east, under 

 one large flagstone, were lying the patella of a strong adult male 

 and some bones of a skull of a child. Of course, these bones must 

 have been disturbed to get thus into company with each other, and 

 with no other bones between two flagstones. In the middle of the 

 cist were found some of the bones of a youngish dog, and amongst 

 them its lower jaw, which show it to have been about the size of an 

 English mastiff; and in the same situation were bones of ox, of 



