By the Rev. W. C. Lukis. 



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In digging a trench from the south point towards the centre 

 we found two interments of burnt bones marked 3 and 4. In these 

 cases the bones were not surrounded with flints; the fragments of 

 skull bones at 3 showed the sutures distinctly ; and skull bones at 

 4 were thinner. At a distance of about twelve feet further north 

 we met with several flint chippings, potsherds of a similar character 

 to those found in the eastern trench, and a granite muller or in- 

 strument for pounding. At 5 was another collection of burnt 

 bones ; at 6 was a large urn mouth downwards filled with the burnt 

 bones of a full grown person ; at 7 was a smaller urn empty, un- 

 ornamented, resting on a mass of burnt bones. At 8 were the 

 burnt bones of an old individual ; and at 9 the burnt bones of a 

 middle-aged person. No pottery accompanied them. In the west- 

 ern trench nothing was discovered, and in the northern there was 

 no trace of an interment, but we found an unburnt finger bone 

 and two or three fragments of pottery. 



This closes the account of the exploration of this group in the 

 order in which the barrows were examined. 



Before I describe the discoveries in detached barrows existing in 

 the same parish, I must exhibit the mode of construction in the 

 cases of barrows No. 4, 5, and 6 ; and a section of No. 5 will suffice 

 to explain the other two. A is the centre of the barrow, where 



Section of half Barrow No. 5, at Collingbourne Ducis. 

 A. Surface level. 



the wooden coffin was placed which formed the primary interment. 

 Over these remains, a heap of mould was piled to a height of eight 

 feet six inches, with a diameter of sixty feet. From the base of 

 this mound to the edge of the fosse, a distance of ten feet, there 

 was a mass of very compact pounded chalk, B, which encircled the 

 mound. This appears to have been placed there for the purpose 

 of forming a footing to the chalk rubble, C, in which the secondary 



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