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great abundance, and probably symbolize some religious idea. 
Fragments of flint were used in interment at least as late as the 
fourth and fifth century after Christ in this country; for they 
were found in considerable quantities inside the oaken coffins in 
the Romano-British cemetery, referable to the above date, 
explored at Hardham, Sussex, in 1866. Where cremation was 
practiced, the funeral pile was sometimes kindled upon the spot, 
which was afterwards occupied by the barrow, but at other times 
the ashes of the dead were collected and deposited somewhere 
else. In several barrows curious perforated vessels of pottery, or 
‘incense cups’ were met with, which may have been used t 
convey the sacred fire to the pile. The ashes of the dead were 
placed in urns sometimes highly ornamented, and those things 
which delighted the dead most, or were most useful to him, were 
deposited in the tomb. Flint scrapers, flakes, arrow-heads, beads, 
hammer axes, celts, domestic pottery and a few bronze articles. 
The number of objects buried in each barrow varied according to 
the wealth of the dead and the estimation in which he was held 
by the survivors. 
“The animal remains in these barrows proved that the ancient 
inhabitants of the wolds were no rude savages, living mainly on 
the chase. They possessed flocks and herds, consisting of well 
known domestic breeds—the small Celtic short-horn, now repre- 
the same horizon. At this time the knowledge of bronze was 
gradually finding its way northwards from the Mediterranean 
centres, and the simpler forms preceded the more complex and 
elaborate. 
“ Nor are we left in doubt as to the ethnical relations of these 
_ to the Pillars of Hercules, occur in the round barrows side by 
side in intimate association. The former of these ‘the Silurians’ 
of Prof. Rolleston, is considered in this work as the older of the 
two. According to Dr. Thurman it was dormant in Britain in- 
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