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To resume. The positions I have spoken of in which the 

 cinerary urns and heaps of burnt bones have been usually 

 found, will be best understood by the accompanying engrav- 

 ings. The first represents a section of a barrow in which, at 





a, is shown a sepulchral urn in an upright position, capped 

 with a flat stone ; and at b a heap of burnt bones piled up in 

 the usual fashion, and first covered with earth and then with 

 the loose stones of which the whole barrow was composed. 



The nest engraving 

 ae-airi, shows, within a 



P . r 



cist, m a barrow on 

 Baslow Moor called 

 < ' Hob Hurst's House," 

 two heaps of bones, the 

 one simply collected to- 

 gether in a small heap, 

 and the other guarded 

 with a row of small 

 sandstone " boulders," 

 all of which had been 

 subjected to fire. 



The next illustra- 

 tion gives a section of 

 the Max Dale barrow at Middleton by Toulgreave, which shows 

 the inverted position of the sepulchral urn. This barrow was 

 formed on a plan commonly adopted by the ancient Britons, 

 and will therefore serve as an example of mode of construction 

 as well of the inverted position of the urn. A circle of large 

 rough stones was laid on the surface of the ground, marking 

 the extent of the proposed mound. Within this, the inter- 



ments, whether in an urn or not, were placed, and the mound 

 was then raised of stones to the required height, and after- 

 wards covered to some thickness with earth, and thus the outer 



