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still in situ on the top of the gravel. The skeleton was lying on its left side looking 

 north, the hands were to the face, the knees to the chest. The grave was about 

 2 feet in length, and there was no implen)ent, and only one bit of well-burnt dark 

 pottery in it. At a distance of 5 feet from the foot of the grave was the centre of a 

 hole 5 feet in diameter, 4 feet deep, in which some animal bones had been found. 

 The head of the skeleton was 250' S.S.E. from the spot where the ballast escarpment 

 in Sir H. Dryden's plan cut the semicircular ditch at its outer edge. This has been 

 added to Sir H. Dryden's plan by Mr. Lukis (N in the plan). The direction of the 

 body was W.N.W. by E.S.E.' 



In a subsequent note Dr. Rolleston says : — 



• These excavations in the elongated form of ditches mugt be considered in connection 

 with shorter forms of holes, such as the one I had dug out on Monday, May 15, with 

 the result of finding nothing in it except the blackish mould which differentiates 

 them and the ditches from the gravel in which they are sunk. This hole was 7' 6'' 

 long by 5' in width, and its depth was 5' 3". Its walls were perfectly definable by 

 the natural gravel, and its long axis was proximately east and west. Could it have 

 been just a sunk dwelling ? The men say they sometimes find these holes as much as 

 8' to 10' deep, and they are obliged to note them because the black mould they contain 

 does not do for ballast. 



' Nov. 23, 1876. A Saxon interment, with head at west and feet at east,, with spear 

 reputed to have been alongside of right humerus. The right hand lay under an umbo 

 and over the symphysis pubis, the elbow being bent. The left arm appears to have 

 been straight. A knife of iron lay at a tangent to the anterior rim of the umbo, its 

 handle end the narrower towards the left side, the blade end towards the right. On 

 the left side of the pelvis and a couple of inches or so from it were some strips of 

 bronze, perhaps an ornament of the left wrist-band. I found none on the right. The 

 grave was i' 6" deep. The entire length occupied was about 5' 4" long.' 



Most of the human and other remains are preserved in the Museum 

 of the University of Oxford. 



