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Note* on Barrow-diggings. 



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Plan of Barrow No. 6. 

 Showing positions of interments. 

 A. Earth removed in 1840. B. Trenches made in 1861. 



Barrow No. 6. About the year 1840, several cart-loads of earth 

 were taken from the south side for the purpose of levelling the 

 yard annexed to a field-barn close by. In doing this the labourers 

 found a skeleton, burnt bones, and as many as five urns, at a dis- 

 tance of six or eight feet from the base of the barrow, and from 

 two to three feet below the surface. One of the men employed in 

 this work told me that the urns were entire when found, and that 

 only two were taken up whole. I have not been able to ascertain 

 with any certainty what has become of them. He also described 

 the posture of the skeleton, as lying on its right side with the legs 

 bent. 



The excavation which was then made, invited me in 1856 to 

 commence operations on the same side of the mound, but the 

 labour was so great that the work was discontinued at the end of 

 two days, after making little progress. On 3rd May, 1861, the 



