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the other. The workmen had proceeded (with Mr. Snowball's 

 aid and direction during my absence for a few hours,) more than 

 ten yards before they met with any different indications. On 

 my return, towards night-fall, they had just struck upon a 

 second cist with an urn contained in it, which had unfortunately 

 been broken by the fall of a side slab ages before. Next morn- 

 ing this cist was carefully cleared out, and the fragments of the 

 urn hardened by exposure to fire on the spot, so that now they 

 have been put together by Mr. Greenwell so as to show the shape 

 and ornamental scorings. Probably the first urn might have 

 been saved by similar means. A small and rude flint knife was 

 found among the sand which filled this as well as the other cists. 

 Beyond the second cist, but closely adjoining it on the east, a 

 trench was also excavated, where some immense water-worn 

 stones and slabs were seen to protrude. It was cut from south 

 to north, along what appears to have been the eastern face of the 

 barrow for nineteen feet, by ten feet in breadth. As it was just 

 possible that between the southern and eastern cists a third inter- 

 ment might have been placed, we next had a trench of rather 

 less dimensions dug in that direction from the second line of 

 excavation. Here we were not long in coming upon another cist 

 with very massive covering, slab smaller, and more irregular in 

 form than the other cists. There was nothing within but fine 

 sand. 



The barrow remained open in this condition until the begin- 

 ning of May, and was seen by Mr. Greenwell and others. At 

 this time Mr. Snowball, to whom I am under great obligations 

 for his frequent assistance in our explorations, desired to fill in 

 the site in order to proceed with the tillage of the land. In 

 probing a few inches beyond the large northern trench he found, 

 at almost the last moment, the central cist, which I had not 

 thought to exist, from the result of our earlier excavation. This 

 fourth cist, which in so large a barrow was not difficult to miss, 

 had no covering slab. It had no doubt been displaced by the 

 plough some time since, as it occupied a slightly higher relative 

 position than the rest. This cist also contained no remains, 

 though it was lined with a large and well-shaped slab at the 



