By the Rev. W. C. Lukis. 



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Showing position3 of interments. T. Trenches. 



of calcined human bones, without any pottery or implements of 

 any kind. The bones had been placed on the slope of the original 

 barrow, and chalk thrown over them whereby the mound had 

 become enlarged. As we penetrated the mould of the original 

 barrow we met with fragments of vessels, most of them being 

 apparently portions of richly ornamented drinking cups, animal 

 bones and teeth. At about 10 feet from the centre there was a 

 stratum 4 inches thick, of dark mould, overlying the original sur- 

 face chalk, in which were innumerable fragments of ornamented 

 urns, charred animal bones, and flint chippings. This stratum ex- 

 tended over an area of about 20 feet diameter. Allusion is made 

 to discoveries of a similar kind in Mr. Bateman's " Ten years 

 diggings," and an extract is there given from a communication 

 by the President of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich to Sir H. Ellis : 

 "in almost all the accounts of the opening of Pagan sepul- 

 chres and Tumuli, mention is made of the discovery of fragments 

 of pottery strewn in the soil, which appear to be portions of vessels 

 similar to such as are often found by the side of the human re- 



