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mound attained its greatest height. The skeleton lay east and 

 west, with the head towards the east and facing the south. The 

 hody must have been much contracted, the whole space occupied 

 by the bones being only 3ft. 2in x 18in. The left elbow was bent 

 and the hand clenched in front of the face ; the right arm was 

 stretched out, the hand resting behind the knees, which were bent 

 and drawn up towards the face. 



The body had been laid on the turf without any excavation, and 

 no relic of any description seems to have been placed with it. 

 Four flint flakes were found among the bones, but their presence 

 may have been quite accidental, and although the soil under and 

 round the skeleton for some feet was sifted nothing was found in it. 



For an irregular space of from 3ft. to 5ft. round about the 

 skeleton the soil appeared to be composed of decayed turf and 

 mould and was quite different from the material of the rest of the 

 barrow. It seems not unlikely that the first step towards building 

 the barrow had been made by piling up round the body the turf 

 and mould which must have been taken from the ditch before the 

 chalk of which the mound mainly consists could have been got at. 

 A few specks of what may have been either decayed wood or 

 charcoal were noticed in this mould, but not enough to suggest 

 that there had been a fire on the spot. 



It has been said that there were two depressions or slight hollows 

 on the surface of the mound, and an interment having been found 

 under the first' it was hoped and expected that another would be 

 found under the second. No trace, however, could be found of a 

 second interment, nor did the mound show any signs of having 

 been disturbed at that or any other place. 



The dark seam of the old surface turf was plainly visible under 

 the whole area of the mound. The ground was picked over down 

 to the undisturbed chalk in search of any cist, but with the ex- 

 ception of two holes and a trench nothing was found. These two 

 holes were 2ft. deep and 2ft. in diameter, one 15ft. and the other 

 30ft. from the east end, and both just to the north of the central 

 line of the mound. The trench was 2ft. wide and 1ft. deep in the 

 chalk ; it ran from side to side beneath the mound in a slightly 



