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opposite the chest, was an incense cup of the " Grape Cup " type 

 (Fig. 6), with three (?) rows of nodules which have heen stuck on 

 the body of the cup and have most of them fallen off. The cup 

 contained a little brownish-red matter, and a lump of burnt 

 clay roughly conical in shape. Under it and staining it green, 

 was a small bronze knife with two rivets, 2\ inches in length, 

 worn down very thin and pointed by repeated sharpening 

 (Fig. 7). With it also were two nicely-flaked arrow-heads 

 of flint, barbed and tanged, .with the barbs perfect. All 

 these objects are now in the British Museum. A great deal of 

 brown earthy matter was observable at the bottom of this cist, and 

 I have noticed the same appearance more or less in others, but 

 there was a greater quantity than usual in this one, and amongst 

 it I was able to easily ascertain that some of it, at any rate, was 

 the remains either of heather or juniper (I am inclined to think 

 the latter), the decayed wood and small twigs being quite dis- 

 cernible. 



There were no other remains, but isolated pieces of Bronze Age 

 pottery occurred amongst the earth around the barrow, probably 

 belonging to secondary interments that had been ploughed or dug 

 out long before. 



Barrow 17. Netheravon. 



Before concluding I must not forget to mention a barrOw lying 

 about half-a-mile east of Beach's Barn, not excavated with those 

 already mentioned, but some time afterwards. It is a low flat 

 barrow, and showed signs of disturbance which were soon accounted 

 for, as a skeleton was come upon buried at full length and with it 

 two bronze coins of Constantine Junior, but no other object. 

 Amongst the earth were fragments of Bronze Age Pottery, with 

 dotted Vandykes, also human bones dispersed around. 



The interment of the person at full length was evidently one 

 which had taken place towards the end of the Roman occupation, 

 and one of an inhabitant of a British village existing at that time 

 near the spot where Beach's Barn now stands ; some fancy having 

 prompted them to inter their relation in the barrow of times very 



