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oblique direction from north-east to south-west, ending abruptly 

 on both sides at the outer edges of the mound, and 9ft. within its 

 eastern end. Both the holes and the trench were filled with the 

 same rubbly chalk of which the barrow was built, but in the first 

 hole mixed with this there was some dark earth and a fragment 

 of deer horn. 1 



The mound was built entirely of chalk rubble, apparently taken 

 from the wide shallow ditch which extended along both sides of 

 the mound, but which, as is usual in long barrows, was not carried 

 round the ends. The ground having been thus lowered on either 

 side the mound appeared higher than it really was, the greatest 

 depth from the surface to the old turf line being only 26in. 



Ten fragments of coarse pottery and fourteen flint flakes were 

 found scattered through the mound, four of the flakes being among 

 the bones. 



The barrow seems to be undoubtedly a true long barrow of the 

 simple unchambered class. The shape and orientation of the 

 mound, the interment at the east end at the spot where the mound 

 was highest, the absence of accompanying grave goods, the presence 

 of a shallow ditch on the sides of the mound, the size of the bones 

 and the pronounced character of the skull are all typical of 

 Neolithic barrows ; while the crouched position of the skeleton 

 and the mysterious holes under the mound seem to be equally 

 characteristic of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. 2 



The Saxon B arrow. 



This is a small very low round barrow, not noticed by the Bev. 



A. C. Smith, or marked on the Ordnance Maps. It is situated 25 







1 For holes under barrows see Archceologia, XLIL, p. 181, and British 

 Barrows, p. 9. 



5 " The primary interments in the (unchambered long) barrows may be 

 classed under two heads : . . . skeletons of one, or at the most two bodies 

 separately interred, or . . . many bodies promiscuously piled together," 

 the latter being much more usual than the former. Archceologia, XLIL,. 

 p. 184. For crouched position in long and round barrows see Ibid, p. 189. 



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