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Lying upon the chest of this skeleton were a number of fragments 

 of another adult skull, and to the right of its knees were the femur, 

 tibia, and humerus of a strong old man ; and about 6 inches from 

 the right humerus of the female skeleton were parts of the skull of 

 a baby, some fragments of which were also found over the female 

 skeleton, and between its legs. Probably, or all but certainly, the 

 two skeletons of the baby and of the old man had been disturbed 

 and replaced when the woman was buried. Some bones of ox and 

 of sheep, the latter differing much in size, were found in this grave. 

 The grave was about 18 feet from the re-entering angle of the horned 

 east end, and probably to it may belong a ' spindle whorl ' of stone, 

 found October 5th, by Canon Green well, 3 feet 9 inches from sur- 

 face, when making a large excavation close to the spot where, a 

 little more than a month later, viz. November 7th, the female 

 Anglo-Saxon belonging, as she and her tribe might have phrased 

 it, to ' the spindle side,' was exhumed. 



Traces of another secondary burial, which, though earlier than 

 that of these Saxons, was later than the burials of the occupiers of 

 the chambers, and the passage leading to it, may be supposed to 

 be furnished to us by the discovery of some fragments of a very 

 beautifully ornamented drinking-cup on the top of the barrow, very 

 near the apex of the south horn at the east end. 



At the opposite end of the barrow, on its south side, and about 6 

 feet from the south end of the chamber containing the fragments 

 of nine bodies, a piece of a red deer's antler, partly cut, was found 

 among the small stones and clay, which at that point formed the 

 lower part of the mound. Bones and teeth of sheep, ox, and calf, 

 as also a piece of burnt bone, probably human, were found elsewhere, 

 some 3 feet deep, some at the very bottom, in the barrow ; and bones 

 of sheep, ox, and pig were found in the chamber, together with the 

 human bones. 



Osteology and Craniography of human remains from Swell vii. — 

 Under the label ' Swell vii. gen.,' signifying bones from the interior 

 of the chamber generally, and under the label 'Swell vii. 1/ we 

 have bones proving the presence in the chamber, and in the passage 

 leading down to it, of no less than twelve bodies, eleven being 

 bodies of adults, and one the body of a child. Two of the adults 

 from this barrow appear to have been about twenty years of 

 age, one about thirty, and the rest to have been in middle life or 



