By A. D. Passmore. 587 



Later on ifc is recorded that two other small urns were found, 

 which, with the first, were set in a circle round the central in- 

 terment (urn), and in the next barrow examined (No. 2) the primary- 

 interment was of burnt bones, while placed round it were five other 

 urns of various sizes forming an eight foot circle, around the central 

 cist. All these urns except the first-mentioned were broken, and 

 as such were apparently beneath the notice of our early relic 

 hunters, and were consequently abandoned. 



It is of importance to note that none of these small vessels con- 

 tained burnt bones but are recorded as having contained ashes and 

 earth of various colours, very black as regards one. There can be 

 little doubt that they were placed on the floor of the barrow filled 

 with food, as offerings to. the dead, a custom prevalent amongst 

 nearly all early races. The vessel just described is of better finish 

 than the first one mentioned above, and has been made with its 

 mouth of oval shape. 



On Smeeth Eidge, at a point near Barrow 12 Ogbourne St. 

 Andrew (List of Prehistoric, &c, Antiquities), XIII., L. I. c. (Smith) 

 are three natural swellings of the down which look much like large 

 flat barrows. Between the two nearest to Barbury Castle (W) is a 

 rubble pit, whieh-is situated on a line between the W. edge of Four 

 Mile Clump and the huge disc-shaped barrow 1 Chiseldon (List 

 of Prehistoric, &c, Antiquities), XIII. L. I. a. (Smith). 



Here on the medial line of this curiously attenuated ridge, in 

 August, 1912, men digging chalk rubble came upon a skeleton and 

 a pottery vessel which after being greatly disturbed and partly 

 carted away on the roads, was covered up. 



In March,. 19 13, by the kind permission of Mr. J. B. Stevens, of 

 Ogbourne Manor, the spot was re-excavated by the writer. The 

 skeleton had been buried in a grave two feet deep, but as this had 

 been partly dug away its shape and size were undetermined. At . 

 the bottom there still remained the hands clasping the base of the 

 vessel. From careful cross-examination of the three men who 

 made the discovery, it is evident that the body was contracted, but 

 not to a very marked extent. There were no metal objects, nor, 

 as far as they could see, any worked flints. The vertebral column 

 lay roughly east and west, with the head to the east. This last 



