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excavation until he came down to the chalk, but found no 
other object of interest. 
At a short distance from this tumulus are two others, 
near together, in a field belonging to Yarborough Lloyd, Esq. 
One of these was opened on the 10th of April, and presented 
some peculiarities of construction. The chalk rock had 
first been uncovered and hollowed out into the form of 
a bowl about eighteen inches deep, and nine feet in diameter, 
for the reception of the deposit. After the latter had been 
placed in it, the bowl was filled in with fine mould, and 
above this was raised the tumulus, formed of large chalk 
stones covered over when finished with a coating of rubble, 
and earthed up at the top with fine soil. This tumulus was 
about five feet high from the surface of the chalk. No 
traces of human remains were found in this tumulus, but 
there was a considerable quantity of bones of carniverous 
and ruminating animals, fowls, &c, and three articles in 
bronze, one of them a fibula of rather unusual form. This 
object will be best understood by the accompanying figures, 
(figs. 1 and 2,) representing it as seen in two positions : — 
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Figs. 1 and 2. A Roman Fibula, 
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