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show the extent of the openings we made in the barrow, and A, 

 B, 0, and D, show the stone cists containing interments of which 



shown on the annexed vignette 



I have been speaking. Two of these cists (B and C) are also 



With the skeleton in cist 

 B, here shown, a beau- 

 tiful and highly orna- 

 mental " food vessel " 

 was found, to which I 

 shall have occasion 

 later on to refer. Oc- 

 casionally, when the 

 natural surface of the 

 ground was not suffi- 

 ciently even or solid 

 for the interment to 

 be as conveniently 

 made as might be 

 wished, a flooring of rough slabs of stone was laid for the body 

 to rest upon. 



Chambered tumuli of somewhat similar construction to the 

 one at New Grange, in Ireland, exist in Derbyshire, and are 

 of the most interesting character. The principal of these 

 megalithic structures remaining, are the one at Minning-Low, 

 and the one known as the e< Five Wells/' near Taddington. 



