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Mr. Enys said, as an old colonist, that if he was going to bury 

 a body, and he had no proper implements, he should choose sand 

 to bury in as being so easily excavated ; and he should put the 

 body in a contracted form rather than in a recumbent posture both 

 for easy burial and easy carriage. He thought these considerations 

 pointed to contracted burial of older times. 



Mr. Iago said, with reference to Mr. Trevail's remarks 

 regarding the disturbance of these burial places, he quite agreed 

 that it was a lamentable thing to have to interfere with them. He 

 would never do it from choice. He had been invited to go to the 

 digging of barrows, and had refused if it was a needless disturb- 

 ance of a burial ; but if a person was going to take away the 

 burial and strew the earth all over the field, or if the builder was 

 going to put a house there, he always said " Let us have the first 

 dig." No doubt their ancestors put their dead in the ground with 

 the hope that they would rest there in peace, and he thought they 

 should remain in peace, as we hoped our dead woxdd. 



Professor Muller said he carried with him to Denmark 

 representations of the discovery at Harlyn, and he also inter- 

 vie-R^ed the British Museum authorities. But he could find no 

 trace at the British Museum or in the various museums at Copen- 

 hagen of fibulae exactly like those found at Harlyn. The learned 

 men with whom he talked were all of opinion that the fibulae or 

 broiaze brooches were of the form known as the later La Tene 

 form. That helped to fix the date. They also found an iron 

 bracelet, which showed that the iron age had begun when these 

 burials were made, and, finally, he found in one grave, in the 

 sand, with bronze ornaments, some Roman pottery. The conclu- 

 sion he came to was that they had here the burial place of the 

 early iron age, though they still had ornaments of bronze, and 

 iron was so rare that they still made bracelets of it. The Romans 

 might have been in the country, and this single jar might have 

 been got in the course of trading. All the burials were in lines, 

 and in one place four lines were one above the other — one rather 

 below the general level, and another rather above the general 

 level. The burial place had been in use for a very long time 

 evidently, and here and there they found burial places, as if 

 somebody had taken a body, dug a hole and thrust it in without 

 any proper cist ; and the bones were higher than the ordinary 



