622 Notes on Barrows in South Wilts. • 



have been in bad health, the body development was poor and in 

 striking contrast to the frames of those in other interments : there 

 was evidence also of necrosis of the left lower maxillary, where 

 several teeth were missing, many of the teeth being more or less 

 decayed — a most unusual circumstance with these people. At the 

 feet were remains of a small pot of coarse brown gritty ware, un- 

 ornamented ; and under the skull was a fine bronze knife dagger 

 (Fig. 8) v/ith broad flat blade with bevelled edge and three large 

 rivets. It is now in the British Museum, and resembles the 

 Homington dagger, except in the number of its rivets, the latter 

 having five. It measures 4f inches in length by 2 inches in width 

 at the base. The position of the handle was marked by a stain of 

 brown dust. 



A deposit of brown matter was observable all over the bottom 

 of this cist, giving the idea that either the body had been buried 

 in clothing or wrapped in skins, or that vegetable matter had been 

 laid at the bottom, but I was unable to determine what the sub- 

 stance had been originally. 



Baebow 9. Ablington. 

 A small barrow a short distance south of this contained a cre- 

 mated interment in a bowl-shaped recess, but no object. One or 

 two small mounds existing near this spot (not shown in the 

 Ordnance Survey, but marked a, b, c in the sketch map accompanying 

 these notes) were examined. They all contained cremated remains 

 carelessly buried, and in one instance there were remains of a pot 

 in a ruinous state. 



Baeeow 10. Ablington. 



After these I opened a barrow a quarter-of-a-mile to the north- 

 east of them in the valley below, marked No. 10 on the map. It 

 was largely composed of clay taken from the bottom of the valley 

 close at hand, where a stream runs occasionally after heavy rains. 



Nothing was come upon until the solid chalk was reached, where, 

 at a spot slightly south-east of the centre of the barrow, a bowl- 

 shaped cist had been cut in the chalk. Over it was found a small 

 bronze dagger, with three rivets and central rib, about 4£ inches 



