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lying on its right side, with its head to the west, and the knees 

 bent. The burnt bones also belonged to a young person, as was 

 evident from the fragments of the skull bones, and smallness of 

 the joints. In the course of these excavations we found the base 

 of a horn of the fallow deer, a fragment of a bone implement, and 

 a piece of thick coarse pottery, similar in pattern to the fragment 

 found in barrow No. 4. 



No. 6 is the largest of the group, being 110 feet in diameter, and 

 12 feet in height ; and like some of the other larger barrows with 

 a fosse nearly obliterated. As in the case of Nos. 4 and 5, it was 

 originally composed of vegetable mould, and was subsequently 

 increased in dimensions by the addition of a coating of chalk. In 

 order to satisfy ourselves that there was no central interment, we 

 carried on our trench twelve feet beyond the centre ; and next 

 proceeded to examine the sides near the base. This we did by 

 cutting a trench about twelve feet wide, in directions east and west 

 from the south trench. The result was the discovery of separate 

 interments 18 in number, in each case surrounded by flints, and por- 

 tions of about 40 different urns of all forms and qualities : none being 

 ornamented. Unfortunately the sides of the barrow had been 

 trenched for planting, and the urns were so near the surface that 

 they did not escape the spade. In several instances the bases and 

 in others the rims of the urns occupied their original positions, 

 the spade having cut off the upper portions and scattered them. 

 If we suppose that two interments only were disturbed in 1840, 

 the total number in this barrow must have reached 21 at the least, 

 and consisted of persons of all ages. In addition to these, which 

 with the exception of the skeleton in the cist, consisted of burnt 

 bones, we found at (a) an unburnt fragment of an upper jaw, a few 

 bones, and a small bronze coin so corroded as to be undecipher- 

 able. 



Barrow No. 5. Although our experience would have directed 

 us to operate upon the south side, we were induced to commence 

 our first trench from the base at the east point. The first in- 

 terment was met with at a distance of 13 feet from the base, and 

 at a depth of 18 inches from the surface, and consisted of a heap 



