The Opening of a Barrow on Overton Rill. 



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febraciliary ridges prominent, and most of the cranial sutures are 

 still visible. The chin is not prominent. The left parietal is shorter 

 than the right, with a considerable depression on the posterior sur- 

 face near the lamboid suture. This depression has caused a con- 

 siderable prominence of the supraoccipital region. The space 

 between the parietal and supraoccipital on the right side is filled up 

 by a number of small wormian bones. 



" Height about 5 feet 4 inches. 



" Measurements taken with Flower's craniometer .-— 

 Circumference, %% inches, or 56 metres. 



Length 



7.6 



,, 19.3 



Breadth- 



5.9 



„ 15 



Height 



5.9 



„ 15 



Cubic capacity, 1 1 1 cubic inches. 



%\t <%Mtng of a §a:w>fo m (Bkxtow pill 



^|P^N the 15th and 16th of September, 1882, Mr. Henry 

 Jfe§|§ Cunnington having made arrangements for opening the 

 barrow H. vi. b. (Rev. A. C. Smith's map), on Overton Down (West 

 Kennet), invited me to join him; and as the Rev. W. C. Lukis 

 was then paying an archaeological visit to the Rev. A. C. Smith, 

 these gentlemen favoured us with their presence on both days. 



The account of the opening of the barrow H. vi. a. (in the same 

 map), by Mr. Ponting, which is described above, naturally raised 

 the expectation that this barrow, H. vi. b., situated so close to it, 

 and of the same size and shape, would prove to be of the same 

 period, and of the same general character. Such, however, was not 

 the case: on the contrary, they afford an interesting example of 

 the wide differences which existed in the modes of burial adopted 

 by the ancient inhabitants, even in adjoining sites. 



