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The head end of this grave abutted against a side of the foot end of the 
grave of Burial No. 4, a box-grave, 8.5 feet long by 3.5 feet wide, outside measure- 
ment, having no flooring. The sides and the ends were upright; the covering 
slabs did not project beyond them. The grave contained decaying remains of 
the skeleton of an adult extended on the back, the eranium represented only by 
the lower jaw, which rested on what had been the lower part of the chest. 
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Fic. 22.—Stone graves. The Martin Place. Burial No. 3 (to the reader's left) 8 feet long by 4 feet 
wide. Burial No. 4, 8.5 feet by 3.5 feet. 
Two features of interest were noticed in connection with these graves. It 
seemed as if the makers of them had wished to confer a uniform appearance to 
them and had selected for grave No. 3 large covering slabs as an afterthought 
to project and to make the top of grave No. 3 about uniform in width with that 
of grave No. 4, which probably was the first to be built, the inside width of 
grave No. 4 being considerably greater than that of grave No. 3. If such was 
the design of the aborigines, they had succeeded, for when the soil was removed 
from above the graves they had the appearance of a single grave with an offset. 
At the northeastern corner of grave No. 4, as shown in the diagram (Fig. 23), 
which is not drawn exactly to scale, was a small, triangular, compartment, not 
built within the grave proper but outside it, containing no bones and seemingly 
too small to have been used for burial purposes, though possibly the skeleton 
of a young infant may have been crowded into it. 
